12,000 spl trains for Bihar during festival season
The railways has also decided to run a new Vande Bharat train from Purnia to Patna and four new Amrit Bharat Express trains from Bihar and give an experimental 20% discount on return journeys for travel between Oct 13 and 26 and Nov 17 and Dec 1, railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced in Delhi on Wednesday.
A ring railway network will also be built around Patna, Vaishnaw said while making the announcements through a video message in the presence of Union minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh, Bihar deputy CM Samrat Choudhary and MPs Sanjay Kumar Jha and Sanjay Jaiswal. He announced Amrit Bharat trains connecting Gaya to Delhi, Saharsa to Amritsar, Chhapra to Delhi and Muzaffarpur to Hyderabad.
He also said a Buddha Circuit train will run from Vaishali to Koderma via Hajipur, Patna, Rajgir and Gaya besides a new Ayodhya-Patna train.
Railways will lay third and fourth lines between Buxar and Lakhisarai to ease traffic on the main route.
Deputy CM Choudhary thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and railway minister for giving a big gift of railways to Bihar on the occasion of Diwali and Chhath. He said on the special request of CM Nitish Kumar, in view of the problems faced by the passengers coming to and going from Bihar, the railways has decided to run 12,000 special trains.
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