More than 5,000 Odia migrants stranded in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat returned to the State by five special trains on Monday.
A special train carrying around 1,200 Odia migrants from the Panvel railway station in Maharashtra arrived at the Titilagarh station in Balangir district.
Around 1,200 migrant workers arrived at the Jagannathpur station in Ganjam district from Surat in Gujarat.
A train from Chennai carrying another around 1,200 stranded migrants also arrived at Jagannathpur on the day. Of them, 647 are from various places in Ganjam district while 22 are from Kandhamal, 14 from Gajapati and rest 517 are residents of other districts.
Two more special trains brought migrant workers from Ahmedabad in Gujarat to the Khurda Road railway station.
Four more trains are scheduled to bring over 4,000 Odia migrants from Gujarat and Maharashtra and arrive later at night.