Gwalior Indore Janshatabdi Express
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
RAJYA SABHA
QUESTION NO 2389
ANSWERED ON 04.08.2017
Gwalior Indore Janshatabdi Express
2389 Shri Prabhat Jha
Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to satate :-
(a) whether the Ministry has received any demand/proposal to run the Janshatabdi Express between Gwalior and Indore via Guna-Shivpuri;
(b) if so, whether this demand/proposal is being considered and an early decision is likely to be taken on it;
(c) whether any demand/proposal is pending with the Ministry to increase the speed of Gwalior-Guna-Bhopal Express and to attach AC chair car coach with the train; and
(d) if so, whether this demand/proposal is being considered and an early decision is likely to be taken on it?
ANSWER
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (SHRI RAJEN GOHAIN)
(a) to (d): Requests/proposals for speeding up of existing trains and introduction of new trains on Indian Railways between Gwalior and Indore via Guna-Shivpuri are received from various quarters including State Governments, Public Representatives, VIPs, general public etc. at various levels of Railways administration viz. Stations, Divisional level, Zonal level and Railway Board’s level etc. Action, as found feasible and justified, is taken from time to time. However, a compendium of such requests/proposals is not maintained.
12197/12198 Bhopal-Gwalior Intercity Express (via Guna) is presently running with 12 coaches with 4 reserved 2nd seating coaches in its composition which are considered adequate for the present level of traffic. Attachment of AC chair car coach in this train is not feasible, at present. Further, this train is presently running as superfast express train with an average speed of 55.35/55.88 kmph. Further speeding up of this train is not feasible, at present, due to operational and resource constraints.