The Balasore Civil Society, a civil outfit, while had given a call for rail picketing at two places in the Baleswar rail station and Nuniajodi on Monday in protest of neglect and apathy of rail authorities, the stir was postponed following a tripartite discussion attended by the senior railway officials, district administration officials and the members of civil society which was held in the office of Collector here.
The civil society while pressed for an eight-point charter of demands, the railway team headed by Divisional Commercial Manager Abinash Jaiswal, besides considering the demands urged the members to attend a meeting and have discussion with the higher ups in Garden Reach, Kolkata next week. Since the representatives of the civil body agreed, the agitation was called off. Civil society secretary Manoj Nayak said the agitation was kept in abeyance till outcome of the next meeting in Kolkata.
The main demands included shifting of goods shed from Baleswar railway station to elsewhere, preferably to Bampada and Somnathpur and utilize the space for construction of two more passenger platform, repair and renovation of a foot over bridge near Budhabalanga bridge at Orada near Nuniajodiare, passenger train service to Nilgiri from Baleswar, and a direct train from Baleswar to Mumbai.