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direct service: Railway Minister Lalu Prasad flagging off the Tiruchendur–Chennai Egmore weekly express in Tiruchendur. (From left) Minister of State for Home, V. Radhika Selvi and State Ministers, P.Geetha Jeevan and T.P.M. Mohideen Khan are in the picture. TIRUNELVELI: The newly introduced Tiruchendur–Chennai Egmore weekly express train will run five days a week between the holy town and the State capital, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad announced on Sunday. Addressing a function at Tiruchendur in Tuticorin to mark the flagging off the train, the Minister, following repeated pleas from Union Minister of State for Home Affairs V. Radhika Selvi and other speakers, said it would be made a daily service after monitoring the patronage. Mr. Prasad said the Centre was according the highest priority for creating better infrastructure facilities in the country such as power, telecom, roads, ports, rail and air connectivity etc. as it had fully understood that no country would survive without better facilities. “Though the previous National Democratic Alliance government campaigned with slogans ‘India Shining,’ Indian Railways was in bad shape and making huge losses. After I became Railway Minister, the public sector undertaking is making huge profits and giving dividends to the Central Government. I, who has come up to this position from a downtrodden family, am being asked by students of Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Singapore and Japan as to how it was possible? It’s because of our sincerity” he said. He listed the achievements of Indian Railways such as introduction of ‘Garib Rath,’ gauge conversion projects, laying of track to far off places, introduction of rail service to hitherto neglected regions, making of Indian Railways a profit-making public sector undertaking etc. under his leadership. Following a request from Ms. Radhika Selvi, he announced that the train would halt at Kurumbur and Srivaikuntam and christened the train as ‘Chendhur Express.’ Mr. Prasad, who heaped encomiums on Ms. Radhika, said she had taken “sustained and strenuous efforts for realising the 50-year-old dream of having a direct train service from Tiruchendur to Chennai.” “You’ve elected a highly dedicated and sincere woman as your representative and hence I’ll certainly provide you more facilities in the near future,” he promised. Ms. Radhika appealed to the Railway Minister to establish a computerised reservation counter at Valliyoor and increase the duration of functioning of the reservation counter at Tiruchendur up to 8 p.m. Tamil Nadu Ministers T.P.M. Mohideen Khan and Geetha Jeevan, Tirunelveli Mayor A.L. Subramanian, Tirunelveli MP R. Dhanushkodi Adityan and others spoke.
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