Railway Budget round the corner: Coaching terminal complex at Berhampur tops the wish-list of people

Do send emails to railway officials outlining the needs for improving railway infrastructure in Berhampur, Ganjam and Southern Odisha. This is the least one can do to highlight the issues pertaining to the glaring deficit of railway infrastructure. Following are the emails of Railway Ministers, Railway Board members and Zonal and Divisional officials:

mr@rb.railnet.gov.in,  msrm@rb.railnet.gov.in,  msra@rb.railnet.gov.in,

crb@rb.railnet.gov.in,  fc@rb.railnet.gov.in,  ml@rb.railnet.gov.in,

me@rb.railnet.gov.in,  mm@rb.railnet.gov.in,  ms@rb.railnet.gov.in,

mt@rb.railnet.gov.in,  secyrb@rb.railnet.gov.in,  edcis@rb.railnet.gov.in,

gm@eastcoastrailway.gov.in, drmkur@eastcoastrailway.gov.in,

RP Tripathy

The Railway Budget of the last few years has not been kind towards Berhampur and has been extremely unsympathetic and indifferent towards the genuine issues and demands of the region, feel most people of the silk city. Unmet demands, unfulfilled promises and false assurances galore as citizens of Berhampur city wait with bated breath for the upcoming Union Railway Budget, hoping for a departure this time around. While large part of Ganjam has no rail connectivity; Gajapati and Phulbani Districts have no functional rail link at all and about five million people of these three districts depend solely on Berhampur railway station. Year after year railway budgets come and go, but issues of Berhampur remain unaddressed and people accept this perennial negligence as their fate. The demand for a coaching terminal complex is one such demand which people and even the state government have been making for past many years. Coaching terminal complex at Berhampur is crucial for the extension of long distance trains upto Berhampur and we must make sure that this is addressed in the upcoming Union Railway Budget. Multi-functional Complexes are being developed at 50 railway stations across the country and there is no logic why Berhampur railway station that caters to the needs of around five million people can’t have this complex. There is a long list of demands for new trains and railway lines as well, but, going by the past record most people want at least the issue of coaching terminal complex at Berhampur to be taken up this time.