how many of these come to Mumbai???
for someone in Maharashtra, connection towards the state capital is pretty important, for both administrative and personal reasons.
for students, for instance, colleges in Maharashtra have 85% seats blocked for domicile students. how would a train going to Raipur is help a student in that region go to college???
this is the same issue in NED, its...
more... not like they don't have trains, their primary grouse is they don't have sufficient trains to their own state capital, and by not providing them sufficiently, a station essentially starts failing in its primary job
and even otherwise, most trains there are small distance services, save for some while the train being demanded is a long distance, highly important SFE .