Railways renames Howrah-Kalka Mail as Netaji Express

Days earlier than Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrates the a hundred and twenty fifth delivery anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, the Indian Railways on Tuesday renamed certainly one of its oldest trains, the Howrah-Kalka Mail, because the ‘Netaji Express’.
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal tweeted: “Netaji’s prakram had put India on the express route of freedom and development. I am thrilled to celebrate his anniversary with the introduction of ‘Netaji Express’.”
Started within the nineteenth Century as one of many early industrial passenger practice companies in India, the Kalka mail has at all times loved a gradual patronage and recognition connecting Howrah with Kalka. It is claimed that Bose took this practice from Gomoh in Bihar after he escaped from his home in Kolkata in 1941.
Modi is about to go to Kolkata on January 23 for Netaji’s delivery anniversary.