Three Shramik Special Trains From Surat Reach Odisha

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Ganjam: Three Shramik Special trains carrying 4,664 Odia migrant workers from Surat arrived at Jagannathpur railway station in Ganjam district, officials informed Sunday.

Special buses were arranged to take them to their respective home districts.

The first Shramik Special train carried 1,742 migrant workers, including 1,700 returnees to Ganjam, and 42 others bound for Balasore, Bhadrak, Cuttack, Jajpur and Khurda, Nayagarh, Puri and Sambalpur districts.

The second train carried 1,199 migrant workers. The returnees included 796 bound for Ganjam district, 62 for Gajapati, 24 for Kandhamal, 104 for Kalahandi, 17 for Koraput, 38 for Malkangiri, 27 for Nabrangpur, 97 for Rayagada and 11 for Sundargarh.

The third train carried 1,723 migrant workers, including 1,670 natives of Ganjam district and the others of Angul, Dhenkanal, Khurda, Kendrapara and Nayagarh.

For smooth transit of the migrants to the quarantine centres and contain the spread of COVID-19, section 144 was imposed in and around the railway station area

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