A brand new passenger practice connecting Dhaka and New Jalpaiguri on the Indian facet was inaugurated collectively by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina through a video convention on Saturday.
This is the third passenger practice after Maitree Express (Dhaka-Kolkata) and Bandhan Express (Khulna-Kolkata) operating between the 2 neighbouring nations.
The new passenger practice, ‘Mitali Express’, was collectively inaugurated by Modi and Hasina at 6:38 pm on Saturday from the Prime Minister’s Office in Tejgaon right here through a video convention, native vernacular information web site BanglaNews24.com reported.
The new inter-country passenger practice was launched on the event of ‘Bangabandhu’ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s beginning centenary and golden jubilee of Bangladesh’s Independence, it mentioned.
The practice will run between Dhaka Cantonment and New Jalpaiguri in West Bengal through 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.
Railway Minister Nurul Islam Sujan, Director General of Railways Dhirendra Nath Majumder and different senior officers have been current on the Dhaka Cantonment Station through 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 practice has 10 coaches — 4 AC cabins, 4 AC chairs and two energy automotive brake vans. It is anticipated to enhance tourism in each the nations.
The practice will run from New Jalpaiguri to Dhaka Cantonment on Sunday and Wednesday and Dhaka Cantonment to New Jalpaiguri on Monday and Thursday.
Last 12 months, 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. PTI SCY AKJ
