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Vande bharat train extension to Nanded causes inconvenience for Sambhajinagar passengers

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: The Railway Board has approved extension of Mumbai-Jalna Vande Bharat train up to Nanded. The revised route of the train deferred the arrival timing at Aurangabad railway station to 8.13 am, with the final destination of CSMT Mumbai at 2.25 pm. Many passengers and railway activists have termed the revised departure timing from Aurangabad railway station as highly inconvenient. Earlier, the Jalna-Mumbai Jan Shatabdi Express witnessed an extension up to Hingoli. Railway activist Raj Somani said it was the second time the Railway Board dealt a blow to passengers from Aurangabad railway station by offering an extension to a key train to Mumbai. "While politicians from Nanded were very vocal and active in extending the Vande Bharat train, their counterparts from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar were equally passive in countering such a move. Despite being a capital of Marathwada, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar now has no effective train connectivity to the state capital," he said. Prashant Joshi, a frequent traveller to Mumbai, said the Jalna-Mumbai Vande Bharat Express was the option for passengers to reach the state capital in time after the extension of the Jalna-Mumbai Jan Shatabdi Express. "Despite being relatively expensive, the Vande Bharat train was the option to reach Mumbai from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Trade Bitcoin & Ethereum – No Wallet Needed! IC Markets Start Now Undo We are at a loss as this train is also now running at inconvenient timing," he said. Another railway activist, Anant Borkar said the extension of Vande Bharat would in result in huge economic loss fix for Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, which is witnessing huge industrial and commercial development. Rajya Sabha Member of BJP Bhagwat Karad said he wrote a letter to the railway minister demanding a separate Vande Bharat train for Nanded. "If this is not possible, we have requested that a new Vande Bharat train on the Aurangabad-Mumbai route departing early in the morning be started at the earliest," he said. The railway authorities did not announce the inaugural run of the Vande Bharat train on the extended route up to Nanded by Saturday evening. MSID:: 121850997 413 | Follow more information on Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad here . Get real-time live updates on rescue operations and check full list of passengers onboard AI 171 .