CM demands new trains, rail lines from Railway minister

Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami demanded new trains and rail projects for Uttarakhand during his meeting with the Union Railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw in New Delhi on Tuesday. In the meeting he requested that a new Jan Shatabdi train should be sanctioned between Tanakpur- Dehradun and a Shatabdi express should ply between New Delhi and Ramnagar. Dhami told the union minister that a tunnel based rail project connecting Dehradun to Saharanpur via Mohand should be approved and the railway ministry should examine the Uttarkashi- Rishikesh rail project and sanction it.