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Bengaluru-Mysuru rail journey passes Piyush Goyal’s ‘glass full of water test’

Bengaluru | ByPress Trust of India | Posted by Prashasti Singh
Nov 01, 2020 07:45 AM IST

The Minister, in a tweet on Friday night, shared a video showing a water filled glass kept on a table in a compartment and not a drop spilling out during the recent trip.

A high speed journey on the Bengaluru-Mysuru rail route was so smooth after intensive track maintenance work that it passed a test where not a drop of water spilled out from a glass kept on a table in a coach, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said.

(Twitter/@PiyushGoyal (Screengrab))
(Twitter/@PiyushGoyal (Screengrab))

The Minister, in a tweet on Friday night, shared a video showing a water filled glass kept on a table in a compartment and not a drop spilling out during the recent trip.

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“The journey was so smooth that not even a single drop of water drop spilled out of the glass while the train was travelling at high speed.

The results of intensive track Railway track maintenance carried out between Bengaluru & Mysuru in Karnataka are there for everyone to see,” he tweeted.

A Railway officer said the work on the over 130 km stretch was undertaken over the past six months at a cost of 40 crore.

Ballast insertion, tamping of tracks and strengthening of embankments were some of the works carried out, she said.

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