not only bankura purulia passengers, bidarbha region bound passengers from bwn, durgapur, ranigunj, panagarh also flock to bankura station to board samarsata exp.
if Shortest route is the most sought after option then Kolkata rajdhani via pnbe and poorva should ve been diverted first via GC-Mzp.
And Saghamitra express should ve been also taken the route via gaya-adra-hij-vskp-bza route instead of running xtra 400 km in existing ddu-sta-jbp-ngp-bza route.