MANOJ SINHA
Ramgarh, Sept 27: Hazaribagh MLA Manish Jaiswal met Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav in Delhi on Monday and told him that at present only Hazaribagh-Barkakana and Koderma passenger trains and the rest of the goods trains are operating in Hazaribagh railway station.
The train service, which was started for Patna, is currently closed. There was a plan to connect Hazaribagh railway station with many major cities of the country like Patna, Kolkata, Varanasi, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai etc. which is pending now.
Many trains going from Ranchi to Delhi or other railway stations are operated via Barkakana. MLA Manish Jaiswal informed the Railway Minister about the sentiments of lakhs of people of Hazaribagh and said that the passenger train from Hazaribagh railway station to the metros is the biggest issue of the people of Hazaribagh at present.
Moreover, at present, there is no direct link from Ranchi to Barkakana. The Rajdhani Express which currently operates in Delhi via Ranchi-Muri-Barkakana-Garhwa should be operated on this route for 2 days via Ranchi-Muri-Barkakana-Hazaribagh-Koderma-Gaya and its stoppage should be at Hazaribagh.
He requested that at present, the train which is operated from Hatia to Kolkata via Tatanagar – Kharagpur should operate at least two days a week to Kolkata via Ranchi- Muri- Barkakana- Hazaribagh- Koderma-Dhanbad.
Notably, thousands of children from Hazaribagh are studying and employed in South India. Along with this, a large number of patients move from here to various hospitals in Chennai including Vellore. It is the need and demand of the moment that a train should be operated from Hazaribagh via Bangalore to Vellore and then to Chennai.
