Mr Bharatsinh Solanki minister of state for railways, in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha, said that coaches based on German technology are being manufactured at Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala since 2001 and are presently being run in premium services like Rajdhani and Shatabdi and a few Duronto trains.
One project has been executed at Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala at a cost of INR 11.96 crore to facilitate manufacture of the upgraded stainless steel coaches and one more project sanctioned at a cost of INR 130.24 crore is in progress.
A project has also been sanctioned for Integral Coach Factory, Chennai at a cost of INR 249.58 crore to enable it to manufacture such coaches.
The cost of some of the variants of LHB (German) design coaches and ICF design, conventional coaches are as under:
| Type of Coach | LHB Design Coach | ICF Design Coach |
| General 2nd Class Coach | INR 1.2 crore | INR 6.5 million |
| Sleeper Class Coach | INR 1.3 crore | INR 7 million |
| AC 1st | INR 2.4 crore | INR 1.7 crore |
| AC 2 tier | INR 2.4 crore | INR 1.7 crore |
| AC 3 tier | INR 2.6 crore | INR 1.6 crore |
