The Keonjhar Yuva Parishad submitted a memorandum for the General Manager, East Coast Railway, through the Senior Station Master at the Kendujhar railway station with various demands.
They include extension of Howrah-Barbil (Jan Satabdi) to Keonjhar and stoppage of Kharagpur-Jajpur passenger train at Jajpur and its extension to Keonjhar via Sukinda Road; running of trains from Bhubaneswar to New Delhi via Keonjhar, from Tata to Bangalore and Hyderabad via Keonjhar and from Keonjhar to Paradip via Haridashpur.
The Parishad members said that the Railways was collecting lots of revenue from the mining rich Keonjhar district but was ignoring genuine demands of its people. As a result, many railway projects are pending since long.
The delegation was led by Vice-Chairman, Keonjhar Municipality Barada Prasanna Das.