Shramik Special

Bhubaneswar: The Railway Board has decided to run three pairs of special trains from September 12. According to a notification by the Ministry of Railways, 02843/04 Puri-Ahmedabad Express…

Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has almost completed the exercise of bringing home and sending back migrant labourers, with the demand for ECoR-bound Shramik Special trains from…

New Delhi: Amid claims and counter-claims made by the Centre and states over migrants, Indian Railways said on Monday that it had recovered only 15 per cent of operational cost having…

Bhubaneswar: Babies born on board Shramik Special trains will receive gifts from East Coast Railway (ECoR) officials. It will be in cash or kind, the idea being to support the new mothers.…

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday directed the state governments to send migrant workers back to their respective native states in the next 15 days. Hearing a PIL over the plight of…

Muzaffarpur: There is no end to the miseries of migrant workers. En route to their native places during the coronavirus-induced nationwide lockdown, some of them by foot, they have now…

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government will bear the cost of transport of stranded migrant workers arriving by special trains if the host state refuses to do so. The cost will be adjusted…

Bhubaneswar: Just one Shramik Special train is expected to reach Odisha on Tuesday (May 19) when passengers from Rajkot will head for Bhavanipatna. On Monday, four such trains that are on…

New Delhi: Over 2.10 lakh stranded passengers travelled back to their home states in 145 Shramik Special trains on May 14 alone. On the first day of their mission, on Labour Day (May 1),…

Cuttack: A Shramik Special train carrying over 800 migrant Odias from Hyderabad will arrive at Nergundi railway station in Cuttack on Friday. Thereafter, the passengers will be taken in…