On March 12, ₹85,000 crore worth of railway developments, including the introduction of ten new Vande Bharat trains, were officially launched and the foundation stone was placed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
New Vande Bharat trains between Ahmedabad-Mumbai Central, Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam, Patna-Lucknow, New Jalpaiguri-Patna, Puri-Visakhapatnam, Lucknow-Dehradun, and Kalaburagi-Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminal Bengaluru, Ranchi-Varanasi, Khajuraho- Delhi (Nizamuddin) were inaugurated by PM Modi.
The Prime Minister also laid the foundation stone for railway workshops, loco sheds, pit lines/coaching depots, and the Phaltan – Baramati New line. The Prime Minister dedicated to the country two new sections of the Dedicated Freight Corridor between New Khurja to Sahnewal (401 RKM) section of Eastern DFC and New Makarpura to New Gholvad (244 RKM) section of Western DFC; the latter being the Western DFC’s Operation Control Center (OCC), Ahmedabad.
The four Vande Bharat trains were extended, as the Prime Minister announced. Vande Bharat from Ahmedabad to Jamnagar is being expanded to Dwarka, Ajmer, and Delhi. Sarai Rohilla Vande Bharat is being expanded to Gorakhpur, Lucknow, and Chandigarh. Along with two additional passenger trains between Asansol and Hatia and Tirupati and Kollam stations, Vande Bharat is being extended to Prayagraj and Thiruvananthapuram-Kasargod. Additionally, he also flagged off the departure of freight trains from New Khurja Junction, Sahnewal, New Rewari, New Kishangarh, New Gholvad, and New Makarpura along the Dedicated Freight Corridor.
