Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina on March 27, 2021 jointly inaugurated a new passenger train ‘Mitali Express’ connecting Dhaka and New Jalpaiguri on the Indian side.
- The Mitali Express will run between Dhaka Cantonment and New Jalpaiguri in West Bengal via Chilahati, a border railway station in Bangladesh.
- The distance between Dhaka and Chilahati is 453 km and from Chilahati to New Jalpaiguri is 71 km.
- The new inter-country passenger train was launched on the occasion of ‘Bangabandhu’ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary and 50 years of Bangladesh’s Independence.
- This is the third passenger train after Maitree Express (Dhaka-Kolkata) and Bandhan Express (Khulna-Kolkata) running between India and Bangladesh.
