Ahmedabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off 10 new Vande Bharat trains during his visit to Gujarat on Tuesday. The Prime Minister conducted the inauguration ceremony online at a ceremony held in Ahmedabad.
The newly flagged-off Vande Bharat trains are as follows:
- Ahmedabad-Mumbai Central
- Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam
- Mysuru-Dr. MGR Central (Chennai)
- Patna-Lucknow
- New Jalpaiguri-Patna
- Puri-Visakhapatnam
- Lucknow-Dehradun
- Kalaburagi-Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminal, Bengaluru
- Ranchi-Varanasi
- Khajuraho-Delhi (Nizamuddin)
PM Modi commissioned four Vande Bharat Expresses, inaugurated them, and laid the foundation stones for railway development projects worth Rs 85,000 crore. Among the notable extensions of existing Vande Bharat routes are:
- Ahmedabad-Jamnagar Vande Bharat extended till Dwarka
- Ajmer-Delhi Sarai Rohilla Vande Bharat extended till Chandigarh
- Gorakhpur-Lucknow Vande Bharat extended till Prayagraj
- Thiruvananthapuram-Kasargod Vande Bharat extended till Mangaluru
PM Modi also flagged off the Tirupati-Kollam-Tirupati Express. Currently, a total of 41 Vande Bharat trains are operational across 256 districts in 24 states.
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