PM to gift Rs 8,700 cr worth Railway projects for UP

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will give a gift worth more than Rs 8,700 crore of Indian Railways for Uttar Pradesh apart from flagging off two Vande Bharat Express trains including Gorakhpur-Lucknow via Ayodhya Vande Bharat Express and Jodhpur-Ahmedabad (Sabarmati) Vande Bharat Express at a function to be held at Gorakhpur Railway Station on Friday at 2 pm, according to a release of North Eastern Railway (NER).With the running of these Vande Bharat Express trains, the people of UP, Rajasthan and Gujarat will get comfortable and better connectivity. Along with this, Gorakhpur railway station is being redeveloped at a cost of Rs 498 crore keeping in view the requirement of the next 50 years.