Maligaon, December 30:The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi flagged offa pair of new category of superfast passenger trains in the country – the Amrit Bharat Expressand six Vande Bharat Express today from Ayodhya Dham Railway Station.
These new sets of trains are a step towards realising Prime Minister’s vision of improving connectivity across the country and providing world class facilities to rail passengers.
Also, inauguration of the redeveloped Ayodhya Dham Railway station was done by the Hon’ble Prime Minister. The Prime Minister also dedicated few doubling and electrification projects to the nation on the occasion.
Addressing the gathering the Prime Minister said that,the country has taken another big step towards the construction of modern railways. After Vande Bharat and Namo Bharat, today the country has got another modern train.
The trishakti of these three trains is going to rejuvenate the Indian Railways. What could be more joyful than the fact that the first Amrit Bharat train is passing through Ayodhya, the PM added.
The Amrit Bharat train is an LHB push pull train with non-air-conditioned coaches. This train has locos at both ends for better acceleration. It provides improved facilities for rail passengers like beautiful and attractive designed seats, better luggage rack, mobile charging point with suitable mobile holder, LED lights, CCTV, public information system, among others.
The two new Amrit Bharat trains are Darbhanga-Ayodhya-Anand Vihar Terminal Amrit Bharat Express and Malda Town-SMVT Bengaluru Amrit Bharat Express. The Prime Minister also flagged off six new Vande Bharat Trains.
These include Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra-New Delhi Vande Bharat Express; Amritsar-Delhi Vande Bharat Express; Coimbatore-Bangalore Cantt. Vande Bharat Express; Mangalore-Madgaon Vande Bharat Express; Jalna-Mumbai Vande Bharat Express and Ayodhya-Anand Vihar Terminal Vande Bharat Express.
The Phase I of the Ayodhya Dham Junction Railway Station was developed at a cost of more than Rs. 240 crores. The three-storey modern railway station building is equipped with all modern features like lifts, escalators, food plazas, shops for puja needs, cloak rooms, child care rooms, waiting halls. The station building will be accessible for all and ‘IGBC certified green station building’.
Also, the Prime Minister dedicated to the nation three railway projects worth Rs. 2300 crores to strengthen rail infrastructure in the region. The projects include the Rooma Chakeri-Chandari third line project; Jaunpur-Tulsi Nagar, Akbarpur – Ayodhya,Sohawal-Patranga and Safdarganj-Rasauli sections of the Jaunpur – Ayodhya-Barabanki doubling project and doubling and electrification project of the Malhaur-Daliganj railway section. These railway projects will make ease of travel to Ayodhya and Varanasi also connectivity with big cities will be faster which will lead to overall development of the region.
