Exactly, this is something what I pointed out in my earlier post, being a frequent traveller of this train, all I can say is this train has lost its past glory, it invariably runs late, gets rescheduled even during fine weather conditions, departure delays once in three months is acceptable but departure delays by more than 2 hours every week for a Rajdhani, that too nation's first Rajdhani pretty well sums up the abject condition of this train. Sealdah Rajdhani has been able to maintain punctuality in the recent past.

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why I had voiced for following the Mumbai Rajdhani model, let Sealdah Rajdhani run with 6 stops, and Howrah Rajdhani follow the August Kranti Rajdhani model with more number of stops say 10, in that way the time slots can be maintained in a better way, also people of middle tier towns can get an opportunity to travel by Rajdhani express