Title - Weekly Amritsar-Lalkuan train flagged off

Chandigarh: The weekly Amritsar-Lalkuan train was flagged off from the city railway station by former Railway Minister and MP Pawan Kumar Bansal today. The train will directly connect city to Uttarakhand.However, representatives of the Kumaon Sabha, who were present during the flagging off ceremony, said most of the halts of the train were in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh and not in Uttarakhand. The train will depart from Chandigarh every Wednesday at 10.30 am and will reach Lalkuan at 8.50 pm. On its return journey, the train will leave Lalkuan every Wednesday at 11.15 pm and will reach Chandigarh at 9 am the next day. The train will have halts at Beas, Jalandhar City, Phagwara, Ludhiana, New Morinda, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Chandigarh, Ambala Cantt, Jagadhari, Saharanpur, Roorkee, Laksar, Nazibabad, Moradabad and Kashipur stations.Bansal said the new train would not only cater to the needs of Uttarakhand residents but also tourists from Punjab and the region as Lalkuan is close to Nainital.