The worthy-anticipated Dhaka-Khulna short-length put collectively service, which is anticipated to decrease breeze time to glorious 3.5 hours, aren’t launched as planned basically which capacity of a shortage of manpower.
Railway authorities had initially launched that the sleek service would originate in the first week of December.
Shah Sufi Noor Mohammad, divisional supervisor of Railway Western Zone, acknowledged, “We are able to not originate the put collectively steady now for two causes. First, there is a shortage of manpower. 2nd, there are some technical components with the sleek line. Nonetheless, we demand these components to be mounted within a week.”
On 24 November, the railway conducted a trial trip on the sleek route. The Sundarban Lisp left Dhaka at 9:10am and arrived at Khulna Railway Role at 12:40pm.
Railways Ministry Secretary Abdul Baki, who grow to be as soon as on board the put collectively, acknowledged the opposite folks of Khulna and Jashore accept as true with been gazing for this sleek route for a in point of fact long time. “Their wait will soon be over, as put collectively products and services are expected to begin in the first week of December.”
Currently, three trains feature on the Khulna-Dhaka route—the Sundarban Lisp, Chitra Lisp, and Nakshikantha Lisp mail put collectively.
The Sundarban Lisp takes about 8 hours, covering 376km. The Chitra Lisp takes 10 hours by the Jamuna Bridge, while Nakshikantha takes about 8 hours for freight transport.
The sleek route will shorten the breeze to glorious 3.5 hours, covering 208 km and passing thru Jashore, Narail, Modhumoti Bridge, Gopalganj, Bhanga, and the Padma Bridge.
Khulna Railway Role Master Masud Rana acknowledged, “Passenger seek records from on the Dhaka-Khulna route is persistently high. If the sleek route, taking glorious 3.5 hours, begins running, this can establish passengers fairly quite loads of time and bother. If three trains trip usually, this can vastly attend other folks.”
Railway Western Zone Supervisor Md Mamunul Haque acknowledged, “There is high nationwide seek records from for put collectively products and services, making prompt adjustments complex. Attributable to this fact, the Sundarban and Chitra Lisp trains will proceed as popular.
“Nonetheless, I’m hopeful that we can soon add extra trains on the sleek route. We are moreover engaged on setting up rail connectivity between Mongla Port and Dhaka.”
