Apart from Lucknow - Ranchi, Lucknow-Raipur is also woefully neglected.
Only one GR train runs and that too only twice a week. GR trains are a stupid thing to introduce as the first alternative. You don't introduce something that serves a specific subset of passengers right as the first train. A proper Mail/Express train with GN, SL,3A and 2A is much better than this GR.