Demand for enhanced prepare connectivity to northern Odisha positive aspects momentum

By Express News Service

ROURKELA: The demand to enhance prepare connectivity to north Odisha districts from Rourkela and extension of the 15028 Gorakhpur-Hatia Maurya Express until Rourkela is gaining floor from many quarters. As a part of a sustained marketing campaign, members of the Rail Bikash Samanvyay Samiti (RBSS) on Saturday held an illustration in entrance of the Rourkela railway station and despatched a memorandum to the Railway Minister for bettering prepare connectivity to north Odisha.

Samiti chief Sadanand Sahoo stated they’ve began sending copies of the memorandum to Odisha chief minister, MPs and MLAs of the affected districts together with Balasore, Bhadrak, Mayubhanj and Jajpur and a large signature marketing campaign would begin in a few days. “A delegation of the RBSS would leave for Delhi on August 7 to meet the railway minister and other ministers and MPs from Odisha to mobilise support for the introduction of a direct train from Rourkela to north Odisha and beyond via Chakradharpur, Keonjhar and Jajpur Road,” he stated.    

The Utkal Express is the one out there choice which covers the north Odisha districts after travelling lengthy distance by means of Jharkhand and West Bengal and the passengers of the affected districts proceed to face harassment with odd timing, unavailability of tickets and frequent cancellation, he additional said.

Meanwhile, basic secretary of UDBHAV, a discussion board for built-in improvement and mass consciousness, VP Tiwari stated folks of Rourkela and close by areas have plan for an illustration two days later and ship memorandum to the railway minister for extension of the Maurya Express from Hatia to Rourkela.

Citing RTI replies from the SER, Tiwari claimed the proposals for extension of the 18110 Jammu-Tawi Express and the 15028 Gorakhpur-Hatia Maurya Express to Rourkela from Hatia have been concurrently positioned with feasibility stories in 2011. But, the Jammu-Tawi Express was prolonged to Rourkela and the Maurya Express’ proposal was rejected many occasions in previous 12 years on flimsy grounds of punctuality or route congestion or industrial feasibility. “Commercial viability for extension of the train has further increased manifold in 12 years, while the track doubling between Rourkela and Hatia also completed,”  he said. 

ROURKELA: The demand to enhance prepare connectivity to north Odisha districts from Rourkela and extension of the 15028 Gorakhpur-Hatia Maurya Express until Rourkela is gaining floor from many quarters. As a part of a sustained marketing campaign, members of the Rail Bikash Samanvyay Samiti (RBSS) on Saturday held an illustration in entrance of the Rourkela railway station and despatched a memorandum to the Railway Minister for bettering prepare connectivity to north Odisha.

Samiti chief Sadanand Sahoo stated they’ve began sending copies of the memorandum to Odisha chief minister, MPs and MLAs of the affected districts together with Balasore, Bhadrak, Mayubhanj and Jajpur and a large signature marketing campaign would begin in a few days. “A delegation of the RBSS would leave for Delhi on August 7 to meet the railway minister and other ministers and MPs from Odisha to mobilise support for the introduction of a direct train from Rourkela to north Odisha and beyond via Chakradharpur, Keonjhar and Jajpur Road,” he stated.    

The Utkal Express is the one out there choice which covers the north Odisha districts after travelling lengthy distance by means of Jharkhand and West Bengal and the passengers of the affected districts proceed to face harassment with odd timing, unavailability of tickets and frequent cancellation, he additional said.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Meanwhile, basic secretary of UDBHAV, a discussion board for built-in improvement and mass consciousness, VP Tiwari stated folks of Rourkela and close by areas have plan for an illustration two days later and ship memorandum to the railway minister for extension of the Maurya Express from Hatia to Rourkela.

Citing RTI replies from the SER, Tiwari claimed the proposals for extension of the 18110 Jammu-Tawi Express and the 15028 Gorakhpur-Hatia Maurya Express to Rourkela from Hatia have been concurrently positioned with feasibility stories in 2011. But, the Jammu-Tawi Express was prolonged to Rourkela and the Maurya Express’ proposal was rejected many occasions in previous 12 years on flimsy grounds of punctuality or route congestion or industrial feasibility. “Commercial viability for extension of the train has further increased manifold in 12 years, while the track doubling between Rourkela and Hatia also completed,”  he said.