Details of an elaborate plan was unveiled in a Press meet on Thursday in the office of the Divisional Railway Manager of the Khurda Road Division of the East Coast Railways (ECoR) to meet the challenges of the huge rush of passengers for the Rath Yatra this year. It includes running of 82 special trains, rescheduling of regular trains and arrangement of special passenger amenities.
In addition six of the regular trains will be rescheduled, five will be diverted and six extended to Puri. ECoR has arranged exclusive passenger amenities for convenience of passengers. ECoR has decided to run special trains from different parts of Odisha, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh to Puri on occasion of Rath Yatra, Sandhya Darshan, Bahuda Yatra and Sunavesa.
As many as 35 additional ticket counters will be opened at Puri railway station and many additional booking counters will operate at Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Khurda Road, Brahmapur, Balugaon, Khallikote, Paradeep, Bhadrak and Jajpur-Keonjhar Road.