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The South Central Railway (SCR), which utilized to run peculiar trains betwixt Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam, to cater to the immense request from passengers up of festivals similar Sankranti, Dasara, and highest tourer season, twelvemonth aft year, has not announced immoderate peculiar trains truthful acold this year, drafting flak from passengers.
Thousands of radical from Andhra Pradesh’s largest metropolis Visakhapatnam, person settled successful Hyderabad successful presumption of amended employment opportunities successful the duplicate cities. With little than one-and-a-half months to spell for Sankranti, wherever an exodus of families from the duplicate cities to their autochthonal places volition beryllium witnessed, discontent is brewing owed to the nonaccomplishment of the SCR successful announcing peculiar trains.
Travellers are astatine their wits’ extremity arsenic the Advance Reservation Period (ARP)—now reduced to 60 days from the earlier 90 days has a immense ‘waitlist,’ for astir trains betwixt Secunderabad and Visakhapatnam,’ and getting a berth connected these trains is ruled out.
Additionally, obstruction travellers are irked arsenic the SCR plies peculiar trains betwixt Secunderabad and Anakapalle, ignoring Visakhapatnam. They took to societal media saying that these peculiar trains, which person mediocre patronage, would tally to afloat capableness had they been operated from Visakhapatnam Junction.
SCR seems to beryllium contented with operating the existing peculiar trains betwixt Secunderabad-Anakapalle, Cherlapalli-Berhampur and Cherlapalli-Bhubaneswar, and has been ignoring the request to run a peculiar from Visakhapatnam to Hyderabad.
The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has lone extended the existing peculiar trains betwixt Visakhapatnam to Secunderabad, Tirupati and Bengaluru but has not announced immoderate caller specials to cater to the other unreserved during Sankranti.
ZRUCC subordinate Kanchumurti Eswar had precocious written to the SCR GM seeking the cognition of peculiar trains betwixt Hyderabad/Secunderabad and Visakhapatnam Junction arsenic astir of the trains were showing ‘Regret’ Waitlist. These included: Godavari, Garibrath, Duranto, East Coast, Janmaboomi, Falaknuma, Visakha, LTT Mumbai and besides Vande Bharat trains.
“I received a reply that a determination connected the peculiar trains would beryllium announced successful December,” Mr. Eswar said.
Rail users wonder: Do the railways request to beryllium reminded twelvemonth aft twelvemonth that peculiar trains person to beryllium announced good up of the festivals to alteration passengers to reserve their tickets during the ARP.
