PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, Sept 20: Several trains were cancelled and diverted by South Eastern Railway (SER) due to the indefinite ‘Rail Roko’ agitation of the Kurmi community which began today.
The Kurmi community has been demanding Schedule Tribe status and the inclusion of the Kurmali language in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution.
The agitation was taking place in Jharkhand and Odisha while it was called off in the neighbouring West Bengal due to the intervention of the Calcutta High Court.
In view of the agitation by Kurmi Samaj, the following trains will be regulated as under:-
Cancellation of trains
18036 Hatia-Kharagpur Express
03597 Ranchi-Asansol Special
13320 Ranchi-Dumka Express
Cancellation of trains on September 21
12443 Haldia-Anand Vihar Express
Diversion of Trains
12262 Howrah-CSMT (Mumbai) Duronto Express journey commencing on September 20 will run on a diverted route via Kharagpur-Bhadrak-Jajpur Keonjhar Road-Sambalpur City-Jharsuguda Road.
18478 Yog Nagari Rishikesh – Puri Express journey commencing on September 19 will run on a diverted route via Jharasuguda Road-Sambalpur City-Bhubaneswar.
12261 CSMT(Mumbai) – Howrah Duronto Express journey commencing on September 19 will run on a diverted route via Jharsuguda Road – Sambalpur City-Bhadrak-Kharagpur
22349/22350 Patna-Ranchi-Patna Vande Bharat Express journey commencing on September 20 will run on diverted route via Barkakana-Mesra-Tatisilwai-Ranchi
12817 Hatia-Anand Vihar Express journey commencing on September 20 will run on a diverted route via Ranchi – Tatisilwai-Mesra-Barkakana-Tori-Son Nagar-Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Short Termination and Short Origination of trains
18085/18086 Kharagpur-Ranchi-Kharagpur Express journey commencing on September 20 will be short terminated at/short originated from Muri
13319 Dumka-Ranchi Express journey commencing on September 20 will be short terminated at/short originated from Tulin
12365/12366 Patna-Ranchi-Patna Express journey commencing on September 20 will be short terminated at/sort originated from Bokaro Steel City
18035/18036 Kharagpur-Hatia- Kharagpur Express journey commencing on September 20 will be short terminated at/shot originated from Adra
