A bag full of goodies for Chandigarh
Posted: Thursday , Feb 25, 2010 at 0424 hrs
Chandigarh:
Rail Budget: Duronto train between Chandigarh and Amritsar; city figures on ‘tirth train’ route
Chandigarh figured prominently in the Railway Budget presented on Wednesday. Among others was the proposal to start a Duronto Express — non-stop point-to-point train — between Chandigarh and Amritsar.
Also, Chandigarh will be on the map of the special ‘Bharat Tirth’ train — via Madurai-Varanasi-Gaya-Patna Sahib-Allahabad-Haridwar-Chandigarh-Kurukshetra-Amritsar-Delhi-Madurai — announced in the budget.
The city is also expected to be on the route of the long-distance tri-weekly express train from Una to Haridwar.
The budget also included six high speed corridors of 250 to 300 kilometre per hour — Delhi-Chandigarh-Amritsar is one of them.
Further, Chandigarh and Ambala Cantonment railway stations will have a secondary-level general speciality hospital and a tertiary-level multi-speciality hospital with out-patient departments (OPD) and diagnostic centre.
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