Current Affairs :- April 2014
7th April 2014 was a great day for the capital of Arunachal Pradesh - Itanagar, which got its first passenger train. Train was having total 10 passengers and two goods compartments with a diesel engine.
Earlier Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced introducing train service in his package for the state on January 31, 2008. Itanagar thus becomes the second state capital among the eight north-eastern states after Guwahati to be put on the railway map of India. The train’s first journey started from Dekargaon and ended at Naharlagun after covering a distance of 181 km.
7th April 2014 was a great day for the capital of Arunachal Pradesh - Itanagar, which got its first passenger train. Train was having total 10 passengers and two goods compartments with a diesel engine.
Earlier Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced introducing train service in his package for the state on January 31, 2008. Itanagar thus becomes the second state capital among the eight north-eastern states after Guwahati to be put on the railway map of India. The train’s first journey started from Dekargaon and ended at Naharlagun after covering a distance of 181 km.
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