Passenger train services between India-Bangladesh resume after two years
India Today
India-Bangladesh passenger train services, that were halted due to the Covid-19 pandemic, resumed after a gap of two years.
Passenger train services between India and Bangladesh resumed on Sunday after an over two-year gap owing to the pandemic with the flagging off of Bandhan Express from Kolkata station on the way to Khulna in the neighbouring country, an Eastern Railway (ER) official said here.
Maitree Express is also scheduled to resume services between Kolkata and Dhaka on Sunday and will travel to the Bangladesh capital on Monday morning on the first journey from here since March 2020, he said.
"Passenger train services between India and Bangladesh, which were stopped for over two years owing to the pandemic, resumed with the flagging off of Bandhan Express from Kolkata station at 7.10 am," ER spokesperson Ekalavya Chakraborty said.
While the Bandhan Express between Kolkata and Khulna runs two days a week, Maitree Express connecting Kolkata with the BangladeshI capital is a five-day service.
Chakraborty told PTI that people on both sides of the border are excited about the resumption of the train services, which are fully booked for the next few days
"With the comfort of train travel and a convenient time schedule along with affordability, people prefer this mode of transport over others such as bus and air," he said.
The trains have a capacity of around 450 passengers and have air-conditioned chair car and executive class categories, he said.
