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Awareness drive for railway development in southern Odisha districts
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Berhampur: Several social organisations under the banner of Milita Kriya Anusthan Committee, which spearheaded an agitation demanding development in the railway sector in southern Odisha, launched an awareness drive in Ganjam and Kandhamal districts by holding meetings in different towns on Friday.
A bus, designated as Vikash Rath, carrying around 40 members of the committee, was flagged off from the railway station here. The committee members held meetings in Hinjili, Aska and Bhanjanagar on Friday and were scheduled to hold a meeting at Phulbani in Kandhamal on Saturday.
"Besides some other demands, we urged the govt for the immediate construction of the railway line from Berhampur to Sambalpur (Rairkhol) via Bhanjanagar and Phulbani," said Bala Krushna Panda, a retired IAS officer and president of the committee.
"If the railway line is constructed, it will bring Kandhamal under the railway network for the first time," he said.
"Kandhamal, the tribal-dominated district, is yet to be under the railway map, even after 78 years of Independence. People of Kandhamal and Bhanjanagar, which is about 80km from here, depend on the Berhampur railway station for their train travel," he said.
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