Following is an excerpt from a report in The economic Times.

The long awaited Garib Rath air-conditioned train between Bhubaneswar and Ranchi will be inaugurated on March 10, railway officials said on Sunday.

While the special inaugural run would be flagged off on March 10 7 from here, schedules for the regular service of the train, proposed to be provided thrice a week, were being finalised, a senior railway official said.

The Bhubaneswar-Ranchi Garib Rath would effectively have eight 3-tier AC coaches, each having a capacity of 78 berths, sources said adding though the train had been announced in the last rail budget, its introduction was delayed because of various reasons.

Perceived as the poor man’s AC train, Garib Rath passenger fare is around 50 per cent less than the three tier AC coach fare in other trains, they said.

There has also been a demand from some political parties and section of public for a long time to extend the Garib Rath train currently running between Secunderabad and Visakhapatnam upto Bhubaneswar, they added.

In regards to the last sentence, how can there be a long standing demand, when the announcement of Secunderabad-Vizag Garib Rath was only made 5 days back. In any case, it is better to extend it before the introduction of the train than after, as the later will create more resentment from the people in Vizag.