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Jayanagar-Kurtha rail service: All seats occupied on first day of its operation

JANAKPUR, April 4: Locals have no bound of happiness now with smooth operation of the Jayanagar-Kurtha Rail service.
By Republica

JANAKPUR, April 4: Locals have no bound of happiness now with smooth operation of the Jayanagar-Kurtha Rail service. 


Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi jointly inaugurated the railway service from New Delhi on Saturday. 


The train that left at 8:30AM on Sunday had arrived in Janakpur station at around 10:15AM the same day. The rail that reached Janakpur from Jayanagar through Kurtha on the first day since its opening was packed with passengers on both ordinary and AC seats, shared Director-General of Nepal Railway Company, Niranjan Jha. 


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He further said the railway service is smooth and regular on its scheduled time. The timetable has been set in a way that the rail comes and goes twice a day, he added. 


As per the timetable, the train leaves from Jayanagar at 8.30 am and 3.00 pm while another rail leaves from Kurtha at 10:30AM and 5:15PM. 


The dwellers of Dhanusha who had long been awaiting railway service now are elated with the smooth operation of rail. 


Sanjaya Jha, a local youth, expressed his confidence that the area in and around Janakpur would transform within a few years with the smooth operation of railway service. 


He said the area would witness huge inflow of religious tourists and local production would get market which he believed would change the landscape of the area.


(RSS)

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