Bangladesh: Train service between Dhaka, New Jalpaiguri flags off after 57 years

DHAKA, 02 June 2022, (TON): The Mitali Express on the Dhaka–New Jalpaiguri route via Chilahati in Nilphamari in Bangladesh and Haldibari in India began its journey on Wednesday after a gap of 57 years.

The express train, third passenger train between Bangladesh and India, started its journey from New Jalpaiguri at about 9:30am on the day and reached Dhaka cantonment station at about 10:55pm on the same day with 18 passengers.

The train service was jointly inaugurated in New Delhi at Rail Bhavan under the Indian Railways virtually around 10:00am in the presence of Bangladesh’s railways minister Nurul Islam Sujan and the India’s railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.

Bangladesh Railway’s west zone general manager Asim Kumar Talukder said “the train communications on this route came to an end following the India-Pakistan war in 1965.”

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