According to a report, Indian Railways is working on a proposal to give Uttar Pradesh the state’s second semi-high-speed Vande Bharat Express.
“The proposal for running the train is in its initial stage. Feasibility is being studied,” Financial Express, which reported the development, quoted Mahesh Gupta, Public Relations Officer (PRO), Lucknow Division, North Eastern Railway (NER), as saying.
Incidentally, the country’s first Vande Bharat, which was flagged off in Feb 2019, connects the holy city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh with Delhi, the national capital. Since then, 14 more Vande Bharat services have been introduced, the latest of which is between Thiruvanathapuram and Kasaragod in Kerala, which began its run in April, and is the southern state’s first such train.
