Agartala, July 5 -- Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Saturday said that the Vande Bharat Express train will start from Tripura in the coming days.

He said that he has placed a demand before the Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, for the extension of the double-line railway up to Sabroom, and that the work on the railway line from Jirania to Bodhjong Nagar Industrial Estate is progressing.

Chief Minister Manik Saha said this while flagging off the Agartala-Karimganj-Agartala MEMU train service at Agartala Railway Station in Badarghat.

Speaking at the event, Saha said, "Today is a truly happy day for us. In 1964, a metre-gauge train came from Kalkalighat in Assam to Dharmanagar in Tripura for the first time. Later, in 1990, the metre...