IANS/Mumbai
Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday announced the setting up of a museum here in memory of the victims of last year’s Mumbai terror attacks.
Launching three new superfast trains here yesterday afternoon, Banerjee said that the museum will include details of all the railway staffers who lost their lives, as well as the security personnel, railway commuters and members of the general public who lost their lives in the 60-hour terror attacks that began November 26. As many as 166 people lost their lives in the Mumbai carnage.
In her first visit to Mumbai after taking over the charge, the minister also paid homage to the memory of those killed in the Mumbai attacks and made a special reference to the railway staffers who lost their lives in the carnage at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST).
Banerjee also promised better, faster, safer and cleaner train journeys as she launched the Mumbai-Nagpur Duranto Express which will run all Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays connecting the state capital with Nagpur in 11 hours 30 minutes.
The minister launched a 15-coach local train on the Western Railway (WR) line for the benefit of the 7.5mn daily commuters. The 15-coach trains would have a capacity to carry 6,500 commuters and shall run between Dadar and Virar.
She also launched a new daily superfast Intercity Express connecting Pune-Solapur and a new tri-weekly Superfast Express between Mumbai and Karwar in Karnataka.
The minister extended the Hyderabad-Osmanabad Express till Pune which will run thrice a week on Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays.
Banerjee also commissioned the country’s first in-house mechanised linen washing laundry which will be based at Wadi Bunder on Central Railway. It has been installed at a cost of Rs.10mn and can wash 2,000 sets of bedrolls daily. |
