Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Saturday flagged off 6 Vande Bharat trains virtually for U.P., Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand at Ranchi.
Earlier, PM was supposed to flag off the trains from Tatanagar but his chopper could not take off due to the poor weather conditions.
On the occasion, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Jharkhan Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar were present at the Tatanagar station.
The new trains will run on the Tatanagar-Patna, Brahmapur-Tatanagar, Rourkela-Howrah, Deoghar-Varanasi, Bhagalpur-Howrah and Gaya-Howrah routes.
In a post on X, State BJP President Babulal Marandi said that the roadshow by PM Modi in Jharkhand’s Jahmshedpur has been cancelled due to heavy rain.