Both this and Chambal express are very popular trains among the people of both Chambal(Gwalior) and Malwa(Indore-Ujjain) region for travelling to Kolkata,Bihar and Jharkhand. These trains were introduced more than 20 years ago and inspite of being demanded several times to make both of them them daily and a 24 coacher by adding more AC coaches,nothing has been done.Now I know that both share time slot after manikpur but that can be easily managed since even after being converted to SF their speed has not been increased.Which when done can have time lag of an hour atleast between them.
Other reason for which it is required is that both of them suffer huge delay in COI-MGS section (just like other trains) and...
more... one of the reason is that section controllers don't give enough patronage to non-daily trains.
I welcome and request more views of other members.