The Indian Railways has disqualified the bid of a Chinese joint venture for making 44 Vande Bharat trainsets. Now there are only two valid bids of BHEL and Medha Servo Drives for Rs 1,800 crore project. Medha, which had got the contract for the manufacturing for the first two such trains, has quoted the lowest bid, sources said. Only three players had bid for this big contract including the CRRC-Pioneer Electric India, a joint venture between Beijing based CRRC Yongji Electric Ltd and India’s Pioneer Fil Med Ltd, which has its plant in Haryana. Exact reasons for disqualification of this Joint Venture's bid was not available. The Joint Venture had also put its bid when the railways had invited bids for procurement of these trains early this year. It had become a major issue in the light of India-China face-off on the Ladakh border. The tender was cancelled and the ministry had claimed that the decision was taken on technical ground.