Railway Minister flags off 9 ‘Sewa Service’ trains connecting small towns to major cities

Railway
Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday flagged off nine trains connecting small towns
to major cities and said one of those, the Vadnagar-Mehsana train, was the
railway’s gift to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who sold tea at the Vadnagar
station during his younger days.

Goyal said
the nine “Sewa Service” trains were launched without any additional
investment by the railways and it was an example of how to use existing
resources to the maximum.

“Without
spending anything, without investing, we have started these nine trains from
the available resources, among these trains, there is one that goes from
Vadnagar to Mehsana.

A tea-seller
at the Vadnagar station has become the prime minister of the country and by
connecting Vadnagar with Mehsana, the railways has given a gift to the prime
minister today,” he said.

Of the nine
“Sewa Service” trains, those between Delhi and Shamli, Bhubaneswar
and Nayagarh town, Murkongselek and Dibrugarh and Coimbatore and Palani will
run daily.

The other
trains – from Vadnagar to Mehsana, Asarya to Himmatnagar, Karur to Salem,
Yesvantpur to Tumkur and Coimbatore to Pollachi – will run six days a week.

The flagging
off of the Kota-Jhalawar City “Sewa Service” train has been
postponed.

“There
has been a demand from people that trains should reach smaller cities and for
this, we have the Sewa Service trains concept,” Goyal said.

Union
ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Harsh Vardhan and new Delhi MP Meenakshi Lekhi
were also present at the ceremony.