Union railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw (ANI photo)

PATNA: Boosting Bihar’s rail connectivity within Bihar and to other regions, railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw flagged off three new Amrit Bharat Express trains and four new local passenger trains through videoconferencing from New Delhi Monday. Simultaneously, a ceremonial flag-off event was held at Patna Junction, where deputy CM Samrat Choudhary, Patna Sahib MP Ravi Shankar Prasad, and state minister for road construction Nitin Nabin jointly waved green flags to the new trains.Vaishnaw said rail network in Bihar has been fully electrified and a stretch of 1,899km of new track has been laid during Modi govt. “Muzaffarpur-Charlapalli Amrit Bharat Express will start running from Oct 14, while dates for Darbhanga-Madar and Chhapra-Anand Vihar Amrit Bharat trains will be notified soon,” ECR’s CPRO Saraswati Chandra said. “New passenger trains on Patna-Islampur, Patna-Buxar, Patna-Nawada, and Danapur-Jhajha routes will start from Oct 1,” he added.