The long wait of the people of north-eastern States living in Indore for years to have a direct connection from Indore to their native places in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and other north eastern states and increase in frequency of Indore-Patna train, in all likelihood will come to an end soon with the Union Minister of State for Railways, Manoj Sinha here on Tuesday announcing a new train between Indore and Guwahati via lucknow, Patna. Besides, he also assured to increase frequency of existing Indore-Patna train.
Sinha made this announcement here today while meeting a delegation of the people of north-eastern states led by Purvottar Sanskritik Sansthaan state president Thakur Jagdish Singh and others. The minister said that he would see to it that the new train between Indore and Guwahati starts from the month of October this year. The Union minister also assured to look into demands of Indore-Darbhanga train via Varanasi, Balia, Chapra as early as possible.
People of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh living in the city have welcomed announcements of the Union minister saying that the introduction of new train between Indore and Guwahati and increase in frequency of Indore-Patna train will greatly ease huge traffic pressure on this route.
later in the evening, Sinha along with the lok Sabha Speaker flagged off a new Indore-Pune bi-weekly train and a weekly Indore-Kochuveli train from Indore railway station. Of the two trains, Indore-Kochuveli Express will chug off on Tuesdays while Indore-Pune Express will depart from Indore every Tuesdays and Saturdays. While flagging off both the trains, Sinha announced two escalators, two lifts and wi-fi system at Indore railway station by December this year.
Earlier, in the day, the Union Minister of State inaugurated newly installed wi-fi system at Ujjain railway station and laid foundation stone foundation stone of electrification of Indore- Mhow section and launched Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) service from Mhow. The lok Sabha Speaker were also present in both these functions. The Union Minister said that electrification of Indore-Mhow rail route will likely to be completed by March 2017.
later, in an informal chat with the media persons, the minister said that a memorandum between the Union government and the government of Madhya Pradesh would be signed soon for detailed survey of theproposed Indore-Manmad rail 339 km line which has been sanctioned in thisyear's budget.