Besides the new train, railway minister announces new Rajpura-Mohali track. A new Vande Bharat train will be launched soon connecting Ferozepur in Punjab, a historic district headquarters near the border with Pakistan, with New Delhi, via Punjab’s major cities of Bathinda and Patiala.
Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced this on Tuesday. In a presentation along with Union Minister of State Ravneet Singh Bittu, who belongs to Punjab, he also announced a rail link to be built between Rajpura and SAS Nagar (Mohali) that will help directly connect large parts of Punjab more conveniently with the Chandigarh-Mohali-Panchkula tricity.
While a date of launch is not set, the proposal has been cleared in principle and will be sent for cabinet approval next, according to the information shared.
For the Rajpura-Mohali link, the railways will need 54 hectares, which the Punjab government will acquire and hand over.
