PM Flags Off 3rd Vande Bharat Express Train for Odisha & 274 Railway Projects

Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday flagged off the 3rd Vande Bharat Express Train for Odisha on the Visakhapatnam-Bhubaneswar route via a video conferencing programme in Ahmedabad.

The Prime also laid the foundation stone and dedicated 274 railway projects in Odisha. These projects include 162 electronic interlocking systems, 41 One Station One Product (OSOP) stalls, 50 solar power stations, five goods sheds, nine new line, doubling and third line projects, four auto signalling systems, one GatiSakthi terminal, one Jan Aushadhi Kendra and one railway coach restaurant.

The Visakhapatnam-Bhubaneswar Vande Bharat Express among 10 new Vande Bharat trains flagged off on Tuesday. This Vande Bharat train will run six days every week except on Saturday.

It will have stoppages at Bhubaneswar, Khurda Road and Berhampur in Odisha and Palasa, Srikakulam Road and Vizianagaram in Andhra Pradesh.

This new Vande Bharat train is saffron-grey in colour. The trial run of the train was conducted on March 8.

Earlier two Vande Bharat trains were running in Odisha, on Puri-Rourkela and Puri-Howrah routes.

The other Vande Bharat Express trains flagged off the PM on Tuesday were Ahmedabad-Mumbai Central, Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam, Mysuru- Dr. MGR Central (Chennai), Patna- Lucknow, New Jalpaiguri-Patna, Puri-Visakhapatnam, Lucknow – Dehradun, Kalaburagi – Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminal Bengaluru, Ranchi-Varanasi, Khajuraho- Delhi (Nizamuddin).