National desk, 7 July: Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the Vande Bharat Express train in Gorakhpur on Friday and announced that regional leaders around the nation have asked for the Vande Bharat trains to operate from their areas.
“…Vande Bharat train has given a new flight to the middle class of the country with facilities and amenities. Today, leaders from every corner of the country are writing letters to me asking that Vande Bharat be run from our region as well…”, PM Narendra Modi said as he termed Vande Bharat as a boon to middle class society.
Gorakhpur, UP: Anil Kumar Lahoti, Chairman, CEO, Railway Board on Vande Bharat train said, “…The timing of this train is convenient. This train will save two hours as compared to the fastest train on this route…”
Chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath and Anandiben Patel, the governor of that state were in PM Modi’s company.
PM Modi flagged off the Gorakhpur-Lucknow Vande Bharat Express.
The city of Baba Gorakhnath will be connected to the cities of Lord Ram, Ayodhya and the Nawabs, Lucknow by the Gorakhpur-Lucknow Vande Bharat Express. Additionally, better connection will aid tourist destinations like Kushinagar, Siddharthnagar Sant Kabir Nagar, the hometown of the mystic poet “Kabir” from the 15th century.
A vital link between Gorakhpur also known as Baba Gorakhnath’s city and Lucknow, popularly known as the city of Nawabs would be made possible by the upcoming blue-and-white Gorakhpur-Lucknow Vande Bharat Express.
The first small version of the semi-high-speed train in the state will have eight coaches including one executive chair car and seven with air conditioning.
Rajputana and Ahmedabad, a city associated with Mahatma Gandhi will have better connectivity with the Jodhpur-Sabarmati Vande Bharat Express. Cities along the route that the train will connect include Pali, Abu Road, Palanpur and Mehsana.
The popular tourist attractions in the ancient cities of Jodhpur and Ahmedabad will profit from this.
On February 15, 2019, the Prime Minister flagged off the start of the inaugural Vande Bharat Express, which runs between New Delhi and Varanasi. The train set which was produced at the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) in Chennai is a representation of the ‘Make-In-India’ movement and demonstrates India’s engineering prowess.
The effort to produce domestic semi-high-speed train sets got under way in mid 2017 and ICF Chennai finished Train-18 in 18 months. In order to emphasise that it was manufactured in India, India’s first semi-high-speed train was dubbed Vande Bharat Express in January 2019. The train’s top speed between Kota and Sawai Madhopur was 180 kph.