Railways to launch special tourist trains 'Bharat Tirth'

To support government's effort of promoting tourism in the country, the Railways will launch special tourist trains called "Bharat Tirth" connecting popular tourist sites in different parts of the country.

Presenting the Railway Budget for the year 2010-11 in the Lok Sabha today, the Minister of Railways, Kumari Mamata Banerjee said that to emphasise the country's "Unity in Diversity", these trains would be run from the Himalayas to Kanyakumari, from Dwarka to Vindhya Parbat, from Ajmer Sharif to Gangasagar and from Madurai to Patna Sahib.

The Bharat Tirth Trains are proposed to be run on the following routes covering places of tourist importance, the detailed itineraries of which will be advertised from time to time:-

i) Howrah-Gaya-Agra-Mathura-Vrindavan-New Delhi-Haridwar-Varanasi-Howrah
ii) Howrah-Chennai-Puducherry-Madurai-Rameshwaram-Kanyakumari-Bangalore-Mysore-Chennai-Howrah
iii) Howrh-Vizag-Hyderabad-Araku-Howrah
iv) Howrah – Varanasi - Jammu Tawi-Amritsar-Haridwar-Mathura-Vrindavan-Allahabad-Howrah
v) Howrah-Ajmer-Udaipur-Jodhpur-Bikaner-Jaipur-Howrah
vi) Mumbai-Pune-Tirupati-Kancheepuram-Rameshwaram-Madurai-Kanyakumari-Pune-Mumbai
vii) Pune-Jaipur-Nathdwara-Ranakpur-Jaipur-Mathura-Agra-Haridwar-Amritsar-Jammu Tawi-Pune
viii) Pune-Ratnagiri-Goa-Bangalore-Mysore-Tirupati-Pune
ix) Ahmedabad-Puri-Kolkata-Gangasagar-Varanasi-Allahabad-Indore-Omkareshwar-Ujjain-Ahmedabad
x) Bhopal-Dwarka-Somnath-Udaipur-Ajmer-Jodhpur-Jaipur-Mathura-Vrindavan-Amritsar-Jammu Tawi-Bhopal
xi) Bhopal-Tirupati-Kanchipuram-Rameshwaram-Madurai-Kanyakumari-Trivandrum-Cochin-Bhopal
xii) Madurai-Chennai-Kopargaon-Mantralayam-Chennai-Madurai
xiii) Madurai-Erode-Pune-Ujjain-Veraval-Nasik-Hyderabad-Chennai-Madurai
xiv) Madurai-Chennai-Jaipur-Delhi-Mathura-Vrindavan-Allahabad-Varanasi-Gaya-Chennai-Madurai
xv) Madurai – Varanasi – Gaya – Patna Sahib-Allahabad-Haridwar-Chandigarh-Kurukshetra-Amritsar-Delhi-Madurai
xvi) Madurai-Mysore-Goa-Mumbai-Aurangabad-Hyderabad-Madurai

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