Bhubaneswar: Railways Minister Piyush Goyal has acceded to Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's request for running a new train between Bhubaneswar and Junagarh.

Bhubaneswar-Junagarh Road Express (Train no. 18437/18438) between Bhubaneswar and Junagarh Road, and Bhubaneswar-Jagdalpur Hirakhand Express (Train no. 18447/18448) between Bhubaneswar and Jagdalpur will run separately, tweeted Pradhan.

This will go a long way in providing better connectivity to passengers travelling to and from Odisha, he added.

Pradhan had earlier written to Goyal urging the latter for two independent trains between Bhubaneswar-Jagdalpur-Bhubaneswar and Bhubaneswar-Junagarh-Bhubaneswar in view of the long standing demands of the people of Bhawanipatna and Junagarh area in Kalahandi district.