Vivek Express are four pairs of Express Trains on the Indian Railways network. These trains were announced in the Railway Budget of 2011-12 by the then Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee. These trains were started to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekanand, to be held in 2013. One of the Vivek Express trains, the one from Dibrugarh Town to Kanyakumari; is the longest route on the Indian Railways network, in terms of distance and time, and is the 8th longest in the world