Bhubaneswar: As per Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw’s assurance of providing world class facilities at Odisha’s Bhubaneswar and Puri railway stations, the tender has been floated for both the projects.
With major Railway projects in Odisha being monitored at the highest level under the supervision of Prime Minister’s Office, the tender for Puri project will be opened in the last week of June and awarded very soon, according to a release of the Ministry.
Vaishnaw has also instructed Railway officials to keep regular touch with the state dovernment officials for early land acquisition and clearance of different departments so that the ongoing projects will be completed at the earliest.
As a result, the construction of Khurda Road-Balangir new line is going on in full swing. Completion of other projects including doubling and tripling of line has also been given priority.
On passengers’ demand for restoration of trains which were cancelled since COVID lockdown, the Railway Minister directed to restore the services of Puri-Sai Nagar Shirdi-Puri Express, Puri-Paradeep-Puri Express, Cuttack-Bhadrak-Cuttack MEMU Special, Visakhapatnam-Koraput-Visakhapatnam Intercity, Visakhapatnam-Brahmapur-Visakhapatnam Express, Palasa-Cuttack-Palasa Passenger Special and Puri-Talcher-Puri MEMU Special.
In order to provide better comfort and jerk-free journey to the passengers, Rajdhani type LHB coaches have been introduced in the trains of the region. The fire retardant, low maintenance, higher passenger carrying capacity, safer and comfortable coaches have been introduced in Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Duronto Express, Puri-Hatia Tapaswini Express, Visakhapatnam-Kirandul Express, Bhubaneswar-Bengaluru Prashanti Express and Bhubaneswar-Anand Vihar (Delhi) Super Fast Express.
