Paradip Port Trust chairman Sudhansu Sekhara Mishra has expressed his gratitude to Railway Minister DV Sadananda Gowda, Minister of State for Railway Manoj Sinha, Railway Board Chairman Arunendra Kumar and Member Traffic, Railway Board DP Pandey over the inclusion of two new weekly train services from Paradip to Howrah and Paradip to Visakhapatnam in the Railway Budget of 2014-15.
Mishra stated that the Railway Board and the East Coast Railway had been requested to introduce train services from Paradip to Howrah and Visakhapatnam to facilitate direct and comfortable journey of the people residing at Paradip and nearby areas who had to change trains or avail other modes of transport upto Cuttack or Bhubaneswar while travelling to these cities.
Mishra also expressed his gratitude to Executive Director (Coaching), of Railway Board P Guha and ECoR General Manager Rajiv Vishnoi, Chief Operational Manager GD Brahma, CPTM DK Jha and Khurda DRM SK Singh for their combined efforts for facilitating the introduction of these much-needed services to the people of Odisha.