The Bidar Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has urged the Union Government to start a night train from Bidar to Bangalore.
“We
have been demanding for decades that the schedule of the
Nanded-Bangalore express train be changed so as to make it an overnight
train from Bidar to Bangalore. However, the Centre and the Railways have
been indifferent to the demand,” BCCI president B.G. Shetkar has said
in a release.
He said during a meeting with Minister
of State for Railways K.H. Muniyappa, railway officials had indicated
that changing the schedule of the train would affect the movement of
other trains, and would hence not be feasible. However, N. Dharam Singh,
MP, had suggested to Mr. Muniyappa that a new train be run between
Bidar and Bangalore.
Mr. Shetkar said the BCCI
supported Mr. Singh’s demand and urged the Railway Minister to announce
the train in next year’s Railway Budget. He said that this demand was
included in a memorandum submitted to Union Minister for Power and
Corporate Affairs M. Veerappa Moily who visited the district two days
ago.
The other demands include starting the
Bidar-Secunderabad intercity express train immediately and completion of
the Bidar-Gulbarga railway line.
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