The Railways has proposed to introduce 58 new trains which include five Jansadharan trains, five premium trains, six AC express trains, 27 Express Trains, eight passenger trains, two MEMU services and five DEMU services this year.
Announcing this in Parliament today while presenting the railway budget for 2014-15, Minister of Railways D. V. Sadananda Gowda also proposed to extend the run of 11 existing trains.
Gowda said these services would be meeting the demand surges which manifest themselves on special occasions.
He said that special trains would continue to run to meet the holiday and festival rush including services for Melmaruvathur, Velankanni, Jhalawar etc.
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