Bowing to public pressure finally Duranto Express, Mumbai-Nagpur-Mumbai, will run with revised composition wherein sleeper coaches are going to be six in number, from Wednesday onwards.
Railway Board had all of a sudden curtailed the sleeper coaches and increased third air condition coaches considering popularity of the Duranto Express.
However the move backfire das Railways was incurring daily loss of nearly Rs. 11 lakhs as there were notmany takers for costly AC travel.
But Railways was not considering the fact that maximum demand was for second sleeper class coaches. Now already during the Diwali time, Central Railway quietly increased two second sleeper coaches and
reduced third AC coaches in matching number.
Brijbhushan Shukla, Secretary,RailYatri Sangh,said that second sleeper coaches in 12290 Nagpur-Mumbai Duranto Express, aprestigious train of Nagpur Division, was reduced from 8 to 2 with effect from
June 15.This was in pursuant to notification of Central Railway of February 15, 2023.
Taking umbrage, ZRUCC Member Shukla made several requests at various levels to Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Railway Minister Ashwin Vaishnav, PMO, Railway Board Chairman, General Managerof Central Railway, Divisional Railway Manager, pointing out the fallacy of decision of reducing second sleeper coaches.
This issue was a raised in the DRUCC meeting held recently, as a result of which the Railway Board agreed to restore previous composition of Duranto Express.