Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): PM Narendra Modi flagged off 5 Vande Bharat trains from Bhopal's Rani Kamlapati station on Tuesday morning.
Of these five, two mill boost connectivity in Madhya Pradesh and will connect Bhopal to Indore and Bhopal to Jabalpur.
The other three trains will connect--Goa (Mudgaon) to Mumbai, Ranchi to Patna and Dharwad to Bengaluru.
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Madhya Pradesh Governor Mangubhai Patel, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Union ministers Narendra Singh Tomar and Jyotiraditya Scindia, among others, were present on the occasion.
"These trains will improve connectivity in Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa, Bihar and Jharkhand," Modi said in a tweet on Monday.
This is for the first time so many Vande Bharat trains have been launched in one day.
The 5 Vande Bharat Trains
These semi high-speed trains are: Rani Kamalapati (Bhopal)-Jabalpur Vande Bharat Express, Khajuraho-Bhopal-Indore Vande Bharat Express, Madgaon (Goa)-Mumbai Vande Bharat Express, Dharwad-Bengaluru Vande Bharat Express, and Hatia-Patna Vande Bharat Express, as per an official statement.
Earlier, after arriving at the Bhopal airport in the morning, Modi was scheduled to reach the Rani Kamalapati railway station by helicopter, but because of bad weather he left for the venue by road, state BJP media in-charge Ashish Agrawal said.
(With inputs from PTI)
