This was the only train properly connecting GKP and AY[if we skip the few weeklies that exist] and had decent occupancy each time I saw it. If anything, they should have cancelled one of the Gonda bound passengers since enough trains run b/w GD and GKP as it is. Manwar Sangam COULD be a replacement service but unless and until it is extended to GKP[which it won't until the tracks b/w AY - PBH are improved]; I think this passenger train ought to have run.