(): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will give a gift worth more than Rs 8,700 crore of Indian Railways for Uttar Pradesh apart from flagging off two Vande Bharat Express trains including Gorakhpur-Lucknow via Ayodhya Vande Bharat Express and Jodhpur-Ahmedabad (Sabarmati) Vande Bharat Express at a function to be held at Gorakhpur Railway Station on Friday at 2 pm, according to a release of North Eastern Railway (NER).With the running of these Vande Bharat Express trains, the people of UP, Rajasthan and Gujarat will get comfortable and better connectivity. Along with this, Gorakhpur railway station is being redeveloped at a cost of Rs 498 crore keeping in view the requirement of the next 50 years. The PM will also flag off some other trains apart from inaugurating many projects and laying foundations of several others worth more than Rs 8,700 crore. After this, the PM will inaugurate/ lay foundation stones of railway projects worth more than Rs 8,200 crore in a function organised in Varanasi. Under this, doubling of Ghazipur City-Aunrihar and Aunrihar-Jaunpur rail section, electrification of Bhatni-Aunrihar rail section, 100 per cent electrification in the state of UP and dedication of dedicated freight corridor Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) Jn- Sonnagar new line and will lay foundation stone of the rail flyover on Vyasnagar- DDU Jn. Doubling and electrification of railway sections is being done to reduce the pressure of increasing traffic on railway sections. Doubling of Ghazipur City-Aunrihar (40 km) and Aunrihar-Jaunpur (60 km) railway sections has been completed with electrification. Electrification of Bhatni-Aunrihar rail section (125 km.) has been completed, as a result of which electric locomotive driven trains are running directly from Gorakhpur to other metropolitan cities via Aunrihar-Varanasi. Under 100 percent electrification, all major rail line networks in the state of UP have been completely electrified, due to which there has been a huge reduction in the consumption of imported diesel, which will help in making the environment pollution free. Besides, the construction of a 137 km long Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor between DDU Jn- Sonnagar has been completed. This rail section will connect the major coalfields of Jharkhand and West Bengal with the power centres of North India. Transportation of other essential commodities including iron and steel will speed up.