Tag: Rail Roko

The community has been excluded from scheduled tribe list in 1950 and listed under other backward caste (OBC) category.

A four-member team will visit Khordha to hold talk with Railway division officials on the issue. 

The pan India strike called by the joint trade unions, backed by left parties, has hit common man hard. Road and rail services were severely affected due to protests launched against various policies of the central government.

Koraput MP Saptagiri Ulaka also took part in the protest urging authorities to provide a stoppage at the station for passenger trains.

Train services across the country were severely disrupted on Monday owing to a nationwide 'Rail Roko' protest by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM). Several trains had to be cancelled while many others were partially cancelled due to the protest. The Kisan Morcha backed by several farmer organisations observed a six-hour-long rail roko from 10AM to 4PM demanding removal of Union MoS for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra from his post over the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, in which his son Ashish is an accused.

Rail services have been affected across the country as the Samyukta Kisan Morcha observed rail roko agitation today (October 18), seeking action against those involved in Lakhimpur Kheri violence.

Rourkela/Malkangiri: Vehicular traffic was affected in several places of the State including Bhubaneswar, Rourkela, Sambalpur and tribal-dominated districts as Dalit organisations have been observing the ‘Bharat Bandh’ protesting dilution of Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act provisions. Buses have also remained off-roads in Biramitrapur, Malkangiri, Kalahandi and Bolangir. Besides, shops and markets were […]

Dhenkanal: Movement of several trains were disrupted for long hours following a rail roko agitation at Denkhanal. Demanding a halt of newly introduced Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Rajdhani Express, several outfits had staged the demonstration on Saturday. Hundreds of activists including members of bar association detained the Rajdhani Express for nearly an hour at the railway station […]

Berhampur: BJD’s Ganjam district unit staged a Rail Roko at the Berhampur Railway Station here this morning protesting Centre’s negligence towards Odisha in the Union Budget-2018. The party workers alleged while State Government had demanded Rs 6,500 crore for different railway projects in the State this year, the Centre allocated Rs 5,252 crore. BJD further […]

Bhubaneswar: Political parties’ beware as criminal cases will be registered against persons for staging ‘Rail Roko’ agitation in Odisha as per a decision taken at the first meeting of the State Level Security Committee for Railways chaired by DGP RP Sharma today. RPF IG Atul Pathak while addressing the meeting directed officials to criminally prosecute […]

Bhubaneswar: The 5-hour ‘Hak Pain Hartal’ agitation of  Biju Janata Dal against the hike in price of petrol and diesel caused more inconvenience to the general public than good in the capital city. Marked by vandalism, most important junctions were found to be barricaded with bamboo sticks and tyres burnt at others disallowing people take […]

Bhubaneswar: Rail passengers had a tough time at the railway station here as activists of the Congress youth wing staged a rail roko today  protesting killing of five farmers in Madhya Pradesh. The youth activists halted the Falaknuma Express and Bhubaneswar-Bhadrak-Berhampur passenger train at the railway station. Holding party flags and shouting slogans, the activists […]

Khurdha: Passengers had a tough time for a while as locals resorted to a rail roko on the Khurdha-Bolangir railway line at Bolagarh Road railway station demanding renaming of the station. Hundreds of villagers under the banner of the Manikagoda Vikas Parisad stopped a passenger train that was about to leave the station. They later […]

Balasore: Train service disrupted at the Markona railway station as locals of Simulia and Khaira blocks in Balasore districts staged Rail Roko at the station today demanding renovation and halt of three Express trains at the station. Members of the Simulia Khaira Nagarika Manch demanded that the Puri-Howrah, Jagannath and Dhauli Express trains be halted […]

Jharsugada: Irate residents of Lechuapada village under Lakhanpur block in Jharsuguda district staged a rail roko and held a protest against acute shortage of drinking water in the village on Sunday.