Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram welcomed Centre's decision to start inter-state passenger trains. Chidambaram tweeted, "We welcome the decision of the government to cautiously start operations of inter state passenger trains.The same modest opening should be started with road transport and air transport."These trains will be run as special trains from New Delhi station connecting Dibrugarh, Agartala, Howrah, Patna, Bilaspur, Ranchi, Bhubaneswar, Secunderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai,Thiruvananthapuram, Madgaon, Mumbai Central, Ahmedabad and Jammu Tawi.