Rourkela: The long awaited Intercity Express between Rourkela and Bhubaneswar

[rkladmin]

Rourkela: The long awaited Intercity Express between Rourkela and Bhubaneswar (8105UP/8106Down) train has kicked off from Rourkela Railway Station on Saturday afternoon. This fully chair car consists of 8 non A/c and one A/c bogies. The train was jointly flagged off in the hands of Sundargarh MP Hemananda Biswal, State Civil Supply Minister Sarada Nayak and DRM, SE Railway R.K.Gupta in presence of hundreds of Rourkelites. Every day except Sunday this train (8105 up) will leave Rourkela for Bhubaneswar in morning 5.30am and will arrive at Bhubaneswar at 1.00pm. Subsequently at 1.45 pm it will (8106 Dn) leave Bhubaneswar and will reach Rourkela at 9.30pm.


( Reported by Arabinda Das on behalf of Rourkela Development Forum )




( Photo contributed : Situn, member Rourkela Development Forum . Click to enlarge )


Thanks to everyone who made this effort successful both at the local , state and center. Now its time to move ahead with the proposed Rourkela-Koraput experess which goes via Berhampur.

[Dillip707]

everything was fine except that announcement in bengali which created a lot of fuss there

[rkladmin]

Alas ! I am surprised at this and it is indeed disgusting. It is not a fuss but a good noise which was required and obvious. Perhaps few narrow minded people thought of pleasing and oiling Mamata Banerjee. I would recommend whenever any odia goes to Rourkela station next time, speak in Odia to officials who are employed there. They work in Odisha and they need to prioritize that. It seems there is a need of another BHASHA ANDOLANA in Odisha. Its been long time.

How many Odia announcments are done in other states officially ? It is a shame.

[Dillip707]

yes sir

i feel that as if iam in bihar when enter the station

Even Puri is more bangali than nabadweep or digha

[rkladmin]

Puri is more bengali because Bengali have contributed a lot to Puri's local business particularly the shops including the PANDAs compared to Odias. The pandas think speaking in bengali would fetch them more money ( Dakhina ) from the bengali which is obvious. However, speaking , practicing and prioritizing a foreign/outside language ignoning one's own in one's own home is nothing but HINA-MANYATA. It is the Odias who are at fault.