Yes, it is waste of whole day. Nobody will want to travel on a monday morning by wasting a working day. Also in the return direction, it reaches YPR at 12.00 noon, again losing a working day. I am sure this train will run near empty all the time.
Why are the authorities not incorporating passenger's demand while declaring trains? If they have any concerns about passenger's worries, they would have declared this train to run on weekends.
I feel they just want to show that though they are running special...
more... trains, there are no takers for it.