Railways approves first passenger train to President Murmu’s native place in Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s tribal-dominated Mayurbhanj district got three of the four pairs of trains that were recently approved by the Indian Railways in the South Eastern Railway jurisdiction, officials said on Wednesday.

The new trains are Kolkata (Shalimar)-Badampahar-Kolkata (Shalimar) Weekly Express, Badampahar-Rourkela-Badampahar Weekly Express, Rourkela-Tatanagar-Rourkela (6 days a week) and Tatanagar- Badampahar-Tatanagar (6 days a week).

“This is for the first time that Tata-Badampahar route will have Mail/Express train connectivity,” Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said in a statement issued by the ECoR.