Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu is scheduled to visit Bhubaneswar on Monday and announce various infrastructure-related projects and inaugurate passenger amenities works.
Among the announcements of various projects and amenities, flagging off of the extension of the Khurda Road-Rajsunakhala-Khurda Road passenger up to Bolagarh Road and the Rourkela-Bhubaneswar-Rourkela Rajyarani Express up to Gunupur is included.
He would also lay foundation-stone for a Khurda Road bypass line, a 4th line between Rourkela and Bondamunda, a Multi Disciplinary Training Centre at Jagatpur in Cuttack and maintenance facilities for MEMU Units at Khurda Road.
Besides, Prabhu would inaugurate raising and extension of platform No-1 and new platform No-2 and a new approach Road at Jharsuguda Road and a double line between Handapa and Saragipali stations in the Angul-Sambalpur doubling project through videoconferencing from Bhubaneswar. He would also inaugurate lifts and escalators at the Bhubaneswar station.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Union Ministers Jual Oram and Dharmendra Pradhan and MPs and MlAs would also grace the occasion.