Demanding a passenger halt at Ankuli in the Brahmapur industrial area, 14 active organisations of Brahmapur city would hold a Rail Roko on October 23.
Members of the Shilpanchal Passenger Halt Sangram Samiti, the Manav Adhikar Surakhya Manch, the Mahan Sangha, the Sardar Ballabbhai Patel Bahumukhi Sangha, the Gajapati Nagar Unnayan Committee, the Ganjam Zilla Vikash Manch, the Utkal Sammilani, the Bharatiya Majadur Sangha, the Jan Jagaran Manch and the Forum for Ganjam held a preparatory meeting here at the Circuit House on Tuesday and demanded passenger halt.
The members are also preparing to conduct a Jail Bharo agitation.
Notably, the longstanding demand of the people of Ankuli for a passenger halt has not been solved by the railway authorities or the district administration till today though the people of the area have been demanding it for three decades.
The organisations submitted individual memorandums to the Railway General Manager through the local Station Manager.
R Satya Narayan Rao, Trinath Nayak, Upendra Nath Satpathy, Brundaban Behera, Suryakanta Patra, Debi Prasad Mohapatra and Ramesh Chandra Das were present at the preparatory meeting, among others.