Tripura’s Chief Minister, Manik Saha, has asked Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to start a new Vande Bharat train service between Agartala, the state’s capital, and Guwahati in Assam. Saha met with Vaishnaw in New Delhi to talk about various improvements to the railways in Tripura.
In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Saha wrote, “I met with the Union Minister of Railways and IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw, at Rail Bhawan in New Delhi. We talked about important topics, including starting the Vande Bharat Train, a train between Agartala and Guwahati, local trains between Dharmanagar and Sabroom, and laying new tracks for the Jirania-Bodhjungnagar and Dharmanagar-Kailashar routes. We also discussed a special train for farmers between Agartala and Guwahati.”
Earlier, Saha also met Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to talk about improving schools in Tripura, upgrading Women’s College to a Women’s University, and turning Tripura Institute of Technology into a Technical University.
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