Garib Rath to be inaugurated on March 10
The long awaited Garib Rath air-conditioned train between Bhubaneswar and Ranchi will be inaugurated on March 10. Weekend Platter | Biz week in pics
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BHUBANESWAR: The long awaited Garib Rath air-conditioned train between Bhubaneswar and Ranchi will be inaugurated on March 10, railway officials said on Sunday.
Announcement about its inaugural run came barely five days after Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik criticised the delay in introducing the train, declared in the railway budget for 2007-08, presented a year ago.
While the special inaugural run would be flagged off on March 10 from here, schedules for the regular service of the train, proposed to be provided thrice a week, were being finalised, a senior railway official said.
The Bhubaneswar-Ranchi Garib Rath would effectively have eight 3-tier AC coaches, each having a capacity of 78 berths, sources said adding though the train had been announced in the last rail budget, its introduction was delayed because of various reasons.
Perceived as the poor man's AC train, Garib Rath passenger fare is around 50 per cent less than the three tier AC coach fare in other trains, they said.
There has also been a demand from some political parties and section of public for a long time to extend the Garib Rath train currently running between Secunderabad and Visakhapatnam upto Bhubaneswar, they added.
Announcement about its inaugural run came barely five days after Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik criticised the delay in introducing the train, declared in the railway budget for 2007-08, presented a year ago.
While the special inaugural run would be flagged off on March 10 from here, schedules for the regular service of the train, proposed to be provided thrice a week, were being finalised, a senior railway official said.
The Bhubaneswar-Ranchi Garib Rath would effectively have eight 3-tier AC coaches, each having a capacity of 78 berths, sources said adding though the train had been announced in the last rail budget, its introduction was delayed because of various reasons.
Perceived as the poor man's AC train, Garib Rath passenger fare is around 50 per cent less than the three tier AC coach fare in other trains, they said.
There has also been a demand from some political parties and section of public for a long time to extend the Garib Rath train currently running between Secunderabad and Visakhapatnam upto Bhubaneswar, they added.
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