Railways is already facing stiff competition from Road specially in Delhi Kanpur Lucknow sector..
Nowadays a Volvo bus is giving stiff competetion to high speed trains like shatabdis , rajdhanis ..
Giving unnecessary halts will further decrease average speed of these trains...
Shatabdis are worst affected .
Bpl...
more... shatabdi and ljn shatabdi are the examples...
Halts like Lalitpur , Dholpur , Morena , Etawah, Tundla or even Panipat , Karnal , Rok , Jind, Tohana, Bandikui, Rewari , Dhuri are truly unnecessary and provide inconvenience to passengers traveling longer distances , demanding cities ... Impacting popularity of the train