Jharkhand News: Trains operating under the jurisdiction of South-Eastern Railway (SER) and East Coast Railway (ECOR) will run on their normal timings and routes in West Bengal, Jharkhand and Odisha.
Ranchi: Trains operating under the jurisdiction of South-Eastern Railway (SER) and East Coast Railway (ECoR) will run on their normal timings and routes in West Bengal, Jharkhand and Odisha as Kurmi organizations have called off their indefinite Rail Roko agitation from Wednesday. Has taken back. The officers provided this information.
He said that in view of the call of Kurmi organizations to block the railway tracks, at least 11 trains running under SER and ECOR in Jharkhand and Odisha respectively were canceled as a precautionary measure and 12 others were diverted. Was.
ECoR said it has decided to run trains on normal routes with immediate effect as the Kurmi community’s agitation has been ‘withdrawn’. Chief Public Relations Officer of Ranchi Railway Division, Nishant Kumar said, ‘The trains which were canceled earlier or whose route was changed. They will now operate on their normal routes and timings as per the instructions of the Headquarters.
Ajit Mahato, leader of the tribal Kurmi community in West Bengal, said, ‘Kurmis have postponed the plan to block the railway tracks indefinitely because the police is harassing our senior leaders. We will meet in Purulia on September 30 and decide on our future course of action.
Sheetal Ohdar, president of Jharkhand’s leading Kurmi organization Totemic Kurmi Vikas Morcha (TKVM), however, claimed that they will continue their agitation on Wednesday. Several Kurmi organizations have started indefinitely blocking railway tracks at nine stations in Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha from Wednesday, demanding Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to the community and inclusion of Kurmali language in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution. Had called for. Ohdar had urged the MPs of the community to raise this demand during the current session of Parliament.
There was a plan to block railway tracks indefinitely at Muri, Gomo, Neemdih and Ghaghra stations in Jharkhand, Khemasuli and Kustor stations in West Bengal and Harichandanpur, Jaraikela and Dhanpur stations in Odisha.
