New Delhi, Oct 9 (PTI) The Railway Board has cautioned all its zones and production units to procure equipment for the maintenance of coaches, wagons and engines only from approved vendors and that all the vendor approving agencies should maintain an updated list.

The Board, in a letter dated October 8, 2025, said that procuring equipment from de-listed vendors are adversely impacting the maintenance of train services.

"A Higher Administrative Grade-level committee, while inquiring into a railway accident, observed that one of the factors adversely impacting proper maintenance of rolling stock is granting repeated extensions of delivery period, even after the contractor had been temporarily de-listed by the vendor approving agency," the letter said.

It added, "The matter has been viewed

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