NCR - maar bhi, raftaar bhi - Harshit Sharma

The new train No.18519 announced in the current budget to run daily between Visakhapatnam and Mumbai LTT, I hope, will run from Sept.10 without any hitch since the Machilipatnam-Mumbai train as announced by the then Rly. Minister Mr. Lalu Prasad, has not yet commenced its journey till to=day and constrained to comment that the Railway Board or authorities at the helm of affairs are conferring the announcements in Parliament as faux pas.
The Railway administration needs to be considered the following suggestions for the convenience of travelling public.
The terminus may be...
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changed to PANVEL, NAVI MUMBAI instead of Mumbai LTT since the LTT terminus is in a remote place and not properly connected by roads for easy movement of vehicles as experienced by me several times. Where as Panvel is easily accessible to NH 4 and local rail terminus for Harbour line which facilitates freely and happily commute to all parts of Mumbai unlike LTT. The rake will stay hardly for 2 hours before commencing return journey and no infrastructure is required to handle the train with same engine unlike LTT.
For Panvel terminus, the train can be run on chord line from Karjat. In case the train is run via Kalyan.
Schedule Halt may be arranged for this train at Kalyan for the convenience of the public. Even otherwise the train invariably maintains unscheduled halt for the sake of railway employees.