Indian Railways on Thursday approved the programme to double manufacturing of non-AC train coaches to around 10,000 in the next two years amid reports of long waiting list of tickets and criticism of crowding in unreserved and sleeper coaches of long-distance trains. Over 50% of these will be bogies with general seating facility and more than one-third will be sleeper coaches.
In the past two financial years, around 4,900 such non-AC coaches were manufactured. Currently, railways has around 55,000 non-AC coaches and with the new production, there will be an 18% growth by March 2026, enabling the national transporter to cater to the growing demand.
