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The Indian railways has announced to run 283 special trains in 4480 trips this year during the Chhath Puja festival. The East Central Railways plans to operate 42 trips to Bihar with new trains towards Bihar this year ahead of Chhath Puja.
These special trains will be operationalised to manage the huge crowd movement by forming queues at the terminus status under the supervision of RPF staff to manage the orderly movement of all the passengers in unreserved coaches.
The Ministry of Railways issued a statement mentioning that these special trains are planned to connect major destinations throughout the country on railway routes like Danapur-Saharsa, Okha-Naharlagun, Muzaffarpur-Yesvantpur, Howrah-Raxaul, Sealdah-New Jalpaiguri, Delhi-Patna, Delhi-Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra, Kochuveli-Bengaluru, Danapur- Bengaluru, Puri-Patna, Benaras- Mumbai, Ambala-Saharsa, among others.