Practical - Will be Popular among Daily Passengers
Sambalpur, one of the most important cities of Odisha, have a very poor connection to the metro city of Kolkata, with Ispat Express taking an entire day and Koraput express having too many stops, and the other SF runs only for a week. Thus this train would provide much faster connectivity... more...
between the two cities. Also, this will be the first Shatabdi running in BNR, and also, Rourkela will get a much needed daily and fast connectivity to Kolkata
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