Senior journalist and social activist Sai Prasan died at a hospital in Nagpur on Sunday. He was found unconscious by railway police at the Nagpur station while he was travelling to Rourkela by the Geetanjali Superfast Express on Saturday. The railway police took him to the Indira Gandhi Govt. Medical College Hospital in Nagpur, where doctors declared him dead.
Sai Prasan worked in various newspapers before forming the Janata Vikas Manch in 2011. Under the JVM banner, he was organising various activities to promote civil society actions in Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh. He was also a columnist and worked on alternative policy and alternative media.
Before his death, he was active in organising events on mission Digital Odisha and planned a training event to be held on June 4, 2015 in Bhubaneswar.
His last tour was to Raurkela to participate in a convention of a local media. He was unmarried and his family members are staying in Visakhapatnam.