Prime Minister Narendra Modi throughout a gathering with Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina, in Bangladesh.
A new passenger train connecting Dhaka and New Jalpaiguri on the Indian facet was inaugurated jointly by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina by way of a video convention on Saturday.
This is the third passenger train after Maitree Express (Dhaka-Kolkata) and Bandhan Express (Khulna-Kolkata) operating between the 2 neighbouring nations.
The new passenger train, ‘Mitali Express’, was jointly inaugurated by Modi and Hasina at 6:38 pm on Saturday from the Prime Minister’s Office in Tejgaon by way of a video convention, native vernacular information web site BanglaNews24.com reported.
The new inter-country passenger train was launched on the event of ‘Bangabandhu’ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s delivery centenary and golden jubilee of Bangladesh’s Independence, it stated.
The train will run between Dhaka Cantonment and New Jalpaiguri in West Bengal by way of Chilahati, a border railway station in Bangladesh. The distance between Dhaka and Chilahati is 453 km and from Chilahati to New Jalpaiguri is 71 km.
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Railway Minister Nurul Islam Sujan, Director General of Railways Dhirendra Nath Majumder and different senior officers had been current on the Dhaka Cantonment Station throughout the inauguration.
Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla advised reporters at a briefing that the service will begin when normalcy is restored. Both nations had suspended railway providers after the COVID-19 pandemic broke out.
The bi-weekly train has 10 coaches — 4 AC cabins, 4 AC chairs and two energy automotive brake vans. It is anticipated to fortify tourism in each the nations.
The train will run from New Jalpaiguri to Dhaka Cantonment on Sunday and Wednesday and Dhaka Cantonment to New Jalpaiguri on Monday and Thursday.
Last yr, India and Bangladesh resumed operations on the Haldibari-Chilahati route for items trains after a niche of over 55 years. The 4 different rail hyperlinks that join the 2 nations are Petrapole-Benapole, Gede-Darshana, Singhabad-Rohanpur and Radhikapur-Birol.
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