Finance
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday flagged off the third Vande Bharat Express train for Odisha via a video conferencing programme in Ahmedabad.
During the program, ten new Vande Bharat trains were launched, including the Visakhapatnam-Bhubaneswar Vande Bharat Express.
This is the third Vande Bharat train that Odisha has seen launched.
This train will run six days a week, excluding Saturdays, according to sources. This train departs from Bhubaneswar at 5.15 am and arrives in Vizag at 11 am. It would leave Vizag at 3:30 pm and arrive in Bhubaneswar at 9:30 pm on the way back.
Originally, it was intended for the rail service to run between Puri and Visakhapatnam. Nevertheless, Bhubaneswar was eventually added as the starting station.
Additionally, Prime Minister Modi dedicated and laid the cornerstone for a number of railway projects worth over Rs 85,000 crore across the nation, including a number of projects in Odisha.
On Tuesday, the PM dedicated 274 railway projects in Odisha and laid the foundation stone for them.
These projects include four auto signalling systems, one GatiSakthi terminal, one Jan Aushadhi Kendra, fifty solar power stations, fifty One Station One Product (OSOP) stalls, five goods sheds, nine new line, doubling, and third line projects, sixteen2 electronic interlocking systems, and one railway coach restaurant.
