Ahmedabad: During summer vacation people go outstation with family to enjoy holidays. We can see huge crowd of people at the railway station and bus stations. Due to the limited number of trains for some cities, one has to wait for a long wiating. The position for Ahmedabad-Haridwar train is also similar.
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There is a huge crowd of pilgrims to visit pilgrimage centers like Haridwar, Varanasi. But for Haridwar there is only one train a day from Ahmedabad to Haridwar. Hence, passengers have to wait for months to book their tickets.
Due to increase in the number of passengers, some special trains are operated during holidays. As there is only one train from Ahmedabad to Haridwar, there remains 50 to 100 waiting tickets till one and a half months. Due to non-availability of seats in the direct train to Haridwar, passengers need to change the train. But looking to the large number of elderly passengers, out of total passengers, going to Haridwar, they are not able to change the train. So, since many years, people have been demanding to make arrangement of another train for Haridwar.
The Railway Ministry is not considering demand of the people, due to which the dream of many elders to go on pilgrimage remains only a dream. People demand that special trains from Ahmedabad to Haridwar should be started, if not throughout the year, at least during festivals, holidays and days of religious importance.
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