Railways has decided to inaugurate 5 Vande Bharat trains simultaneously in the country for the first time. The routes of these five Vande Bharat trains have been decided and the date of inauguration has also been finalized.
According to the Ministry of Railways, on May 26, the five Vande Bharats will be inaugurated by the Prime Minister. In these, the Prime Minister himself will be present at one place while at 4 other places he will show virtual flag. These 5 Vande Bharat will run between Bhopal-Indore, Bhopal-Jabalpur, Patna-Ranchi, Bengaluru-Hubli and Goa-Mumbai.
At present, 18 Vande Bharat trains are running successfully in different states and UTs of the country. The three states where Vande Bharat is not operating include Goa, Jharkhand and Bihar. In the North-Eastern states, except Assam, all the remaining states have not yet electrified the track. The operation of Vande Bharat has started in Assam.
18 Vande Bharat trains are running successfully
The country’s first Vande Bharat train ran from New Delhi to Varanasi, the city of Lord Shiva. This train was run in February 2019. At the same time, another train was also connected to the religious city and this train ran between New Delhi to Shri Vaishno Devi Katra. The third was started between Gandhinagar to Mumbai, the fourth was started between New Delhi to Amb Andaura station Himachal. The fifth Vande Bharat was run from Chennai to Mysore. The sixth Vande Bharat ran between Nagpur to Bilaspur.
Similarly, the seventh Vande Bharat train from Howrah to New Jalpaiguri, the eighth Vande Bharat from Secunderabad to Visakhapatnam, the 9th from Mumbai to Solapur, the 10th from Mumbai to Shirdi, the 11th from Rani Kamlapati station (Bhopal) to Nizamuddin, the 12th, the 13th from Secunderabad to Tirupati and the 14th from Chennai to Coimbatore. Delhi to Ajmer, 15th from Thiruvananthapuram to Kasaragod, 16th from Bhubaneswar to Howrah, 17th from Delhi to Dehradun, 18th from New Jalpaiguri to Guwahati.
