Tag: Shramik Special Train

Angul: At a time when migrants are being brought to Odisha in special trains from different parts of the country, some of them jumped off a train allegedly after pulling the emergency chain near Majhika on the outskirts of Angul town last evening. While seven migrants have been caught by the police, efforts are on […]

New Delhi: The Indian Railways was left red faced on Saturday after a Shramik Special train which started its journey from Mumbai for Gorakhpur on May 21 reached Odisha’s Rourkela without intimating the passengers about the change in the route. The plight of the people on board the train came to the fore after the […]

Bolangir: An 18-year-old girl onboard a Shramik special train died while returning to Odisha from Visakhapatnam on Sunday morning. The deceased identified RadhaKhara hailed from Boipariguda area of Koraput district. The government railway police (GRP) and railway protection force (RPF) personnel recovered the body at 6.10 AM after the train reached Bolangir station today morning. […]

Bhubaneswar: Misusing the facility of alarm chain pulling is a criminal act on any given day, and particularly in the times of a pandemic when there is a threat of community transmission of COVID and even consequential deaths, worse crimes like these wherein migrants are de-boarding trains to flee, seem no less than grade-1 felonies. […]

Bhubaneswar: A pregnant migrant woman, who was travelling in an Odisha-bound Shramik Special train, delivered a baby after reaching a railway station in Bolangir district, informed East Coast Railway (ECoR) on Friday. The woman Pinki Chhatar (23), hails from Ghantbahali village under Titilagarh police station in Bolangir district. The pregnant woman was returning to home […]

Bhubaneswar: The Railways has decided to run three pairs of special trains from Odisha from September 12 to enable migrant workers to return to their respective outstation workplaces. The move came after Union Petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan wrote to the Union Railway minister Piyush Goyal requesting the latter to resume operation of Shramik Special train […]