RAILWAY BUDGET 2010-11

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, 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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