New Delhi, January 30
A completely new category of trains, Sampark Kranti, will start plying between the national Capital and 18 states with new features aimed at reducing travel time without compromising on passenger comfort.
At the same time, however, even as Railway Minister Nitish Kumar explained that trains were a “vehicle of connectivity”, not a single additional service has been introduced to connect other metro cities apart from Delhi.
The Sampark Kranti trains will run non-stop beyond the geographical boundaries of states with value-added features. These will be equipped with a public address system.
The first train of this series — the Karnataka Sampark Kranti Express from Delhi (Nizamuddin) to Bangalore (Yashwantpur), will start running from February 8. While it will initially run as a tri-weekly train, it will be made daily from October 2.
