CM wants two new B’pur-Surat daily trains

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday wrote to Railways Minister Piyush Goyal urging him to introduce two new daily trains between Brahmapur and Surat.

Patnaik, in the letter to Goyal, mentioned that a very large population of Odia workers are engaged in various spheres of trade and commerce in the Surat economic cluster and they need a daily train service between their places of work and origin.

“At present, there is not a single train service directly connecting Brahmapur and Surat although more than 7 lakh people of south Odisha, especially from Ganjam district, are residing there and have various travelling needs,” Patnaik said in the letter.

“Presently, only Puri-Ahmedabad Express, Puri-Okha Express and Puri-Gandhidham Express are providing connectivity between these two places. But as these trains are originating and terminating at further destinations, availability of accommodation at Surat and Brahmapur is highly inadequate,” he said.