CM requests Railway Minister to extend Vande Bharat Express till Belagavi

Bengaluru, NT Bureau: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday urged Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to extend the Vande Bharat Express running on the Bengaluru-HubballiDharwad route upto Belagavi, to boost connectivity between Karnataka, Goa and Maharashtra.

In a letter to Vaishnaw, Siddaramaiah said the second Vande Bharat Express in Karnataka "brought a paradigm shift in connectivity of the region, between Dharwad, Hubballi, and Davangere with Bengaluru".

He noted that Belagavi was a vantage point for industrialists, students and tourists.

Calling Belagavi an 'economically vibrant' district, he said it houses sugar, aluminum and major industries and also a support base for automobile and aerospace industries apart from small and medium industries.