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New Delhi: Railways is likely to
name one of the new trains
announced on Wednesday by
Railway Minister Pawan Kumar
Bansal after the Delhi gang-rape
victim.
According to sources, the
Railway Ministry could make a
formal announcement soon that
the Chhapra-Anand Vihar Express
(weekly) will be named either
'Nirbhaya' or 'Beti' after the girl.
The train will pass through Ballia,
which is the hometown of the
girl, they said.
The 23-year-old paramedical
student was gang-raped and
brutally assaulted by six persons
in a moving bus in Delhi on
December 16 last year. She was
admitted to a Singapore hospital
where she succumbed on
December 29.
Bansal, while replying to railway
debate in Parliament on
Wednesday, announced
introduction of 19 more trains,
including the Chhapra-Anand
Vihar Express.
Sources said railways had
received representations from
the local leaders in Ballia for a
train connecting the national
capital to their town and naming
it after the girl.