evidence: Chisels121 but Shatabdi is the peak of our current fleet of trains which are diesel whereas VB is electric . The amount of pollution that Vande Bharat saves in comparison to other is humongous and that's one reason that we civilians should be atleast for this new approach that our Railways are trying to adopt [...] Another reason to privatize railways or at least allow private operators in addition to Indian Railways. Like in German where DB (Deutsche Bundesbahn), the government railways run trains in parallel with the private operator Flex. Without competition no matter how many Vande Bharats are there, maintenance will be pathetic not to mention the increasing number of accidents because of this. [...] The long-term goal of IR is to replace all the conventional trains with Vande Bharat, Amrit Bharat trains for long distance/overnight routes.