To avoid rush in trains during upcoming Puja season, the Railways have decided to run 19 pairs of weekly and bi-weekly special trains towards different destinations in the country from the East Coast Railway (ECoR) jurisdiction by creating more than 4 lakh additional berths.
The trains are Bhubaneswar-Bangalore Cant.-Bhubaneswar Bi-weekly Super Fast SUVIDHA Special, Bhubaneswar-Patna Weekly Special, , Sambalpur-Yesvantpur Weekly Special, Puri-Santragachi Weekly Special, Howrah-Puri-Howrah Weekly TATKAl Special, Sealdah-Puri Weekly Special, Hatia-Puri-Hatia GARIB RATH weekly Special via Keonjhargarh & Jakhapura, Tata-Visakhapatnam-Tata weekly Special via Keonjhargarh, Visakhapatnam-Secunderabad Weekly
Special Visakhapatnam-Tirupati Weekly Special, Visakhapatnam-Krishnarajpuram Weekly Special, Secunderabad-Guwahati Weekly Special, Howrah-Ernakulam-Howrah Super Fast Weekly SUVUDHA Special, Howrah-Chennai-Howrah Weekly AC SUVIDHA Special, Howrah-Yesvantpur-Howrah Weekly Super Fast Weekly SUVIDHA Special, Shalimar-Secunderabad-Shalimar Weekly Special, Kamakhya-Secunderabad-Kamakhya Weekly SUVIDHA Special, Santragachhi-Chennai Central-Santragachhi Weekly Express and lochuveli-Guwahati-Kochuveli Weekly Express trains.
Apart from this, a number of special trains have been planned to ply between different destinations through East Coast Railway jurisdiction during Puja season and will also create more berths from and through the ECoR. These apart, important regular trains have been planned to be augmented with additional coaches during the period by creating additional berths, an official release said.