Ran 20,000 extra train trips to ferry 4 crore pax in 3 months: Ashwini Vaishnaw 

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New Delhi:

Indian Railways

operated 19,837

extra train trips

to carry more than four crore

passengers

in April, May and June to clear the

summer rush

, railway minister

Ashwini Vaishnaw

said on Saturday.
Stating that railways focus will be on running more trains for passengers, he said that the sleeper version of Vande Bharat will be ready for trial runs before Aug 15 and its commercial operation will start before Diwali.
Sources said the first two sleeper Vande Bharat trains may be deployed on Delhi-Kolkata or Delhi-Mumbai route since the railways is working on upgradation of these two sections to run faster trains.