Train are great hope and communication to Orissa

Wha...What a awsome analogy from Chitta Baral.I love this.I wish i would have data to make the projection.
Hoping for the best. I need a train to my District (Nabarangpur,Orissa,India).I am happy that we do not have train to this place but we do have geneses book recorded politician..

Three cheers to Chitta Bhai..You rock..

1. People can look at my compilation at
http://www.orissalinks.com/#railways
as a starting point. It has a lot of pointers to current status
as well as links to last 10 years of Railway budgets.

2. Perhaps someone can analyze the last 10 years
of railway budgets and other data about Railways to
show in detail how Orissa has been neglected over the years.
(A document like the one some of us made on the HRD
inequity in http://www.baral.us/hrd-nh.pdf would be helpful.)
I think some easy statistics already exists.

3. I think parts of Orissa is well connected to rest of India.
Among the various metros the connectivity to Mumbai
seems to be not as good. See
http://www.indianrail.gov.in/7days_avlpress_ctc.html
for the waiting list numbers in the sleeper class.
*So I suggest for the next year the highest priority should be*
*extending Raipur-Sambalpur-Bhubaneswar express*
*to Mumbai.* (Extension is usually easier than introducing
a new train.) An alternative may be to extend
Vidarbha or Sevagram Express (now running between Mumbai and
Nagpur) to Bhubaneswar.

Assuming the Bansapani line gets finished
as planned, a train running on that line and connecting Keonjhar
to BBSR (say a Rourkela-BBSR express via Keonjhar)
should also be of the highest priority.

What else? Before suggesting more frequency, or new
trains on an exisiting route, please have a look at
http://www.indianrail.gov.in/7days_avlpress_bbs.html
http://www.indianrail.gov.in/7days_avlpress_ctc.html
http://www.indianrail.gov.in/7days_avlpress_puri.html
http://www.indianrail.gov.in/7days_avl.html
http://www.indianrail.gov.in/press_release.html
so that one can get an idea on which routes have
high demand now.

(Note: The above also explains why most often new trains
start with a low frequency. So, for example, the new Baripada-BBSR train
can easily run 7 days a week without new bogies and engines.
But before that the Railways prudently test out the demand.)

4. On me being happy with this years budget; yes I am happy.
I think we should be happy, but not necessarily satisfied, when
some good things happen. Almost doubling of the Railway budget for Orissa
and receiving more than 80% of what was asked is something
to be happy about; at least for me. (But as you rightly said, we are still
not getting
an equitable share.) I am also happy that parts of Orissa are well
connected to rest of India. For example, once the proposals of this year are

done we will have direct trains connecting.

BBSR/KhurdaRd-Chennai: Better than Kolkata-Chennai (became better last year)
BBSR/Khurda Rd-Tirupati: Better than Kolkata-tirupati (became better last
year)
BBSR/ Khurda Rd-Hyderabad: Better than Kolkata-Hyderabad
BBSR-Bangalore: Better than Kolkata-Bangalore -- 2 years back no daily
connection,
(will be almost be doubly better later this
year)
BBSR-Pondicherry -- will be done this year
BBSR-Kerala
BBSR-Goa -- will be done this year
BBSR/KhurdaRd-Ahmedbad/Okha
BBSR-Mumbai -- *needs more frequency*
BBSR-Jaipur-Jodhpur -- was done last year to Jaipur
BBSR-Delhi (30 trains a week)
BBSR-Haridwar -- was done last year
BBSR-Raipur -- daily connection will start this year
BBSR-various points in the North (Allahbad, Kanpur, Adra, Gaya etc.)
BBSR-Patna
BBSR-Kolkata -- 4 daily direct trains, and many many other trains, but still
a lot of demand.
BBSR-Guwahati

5. After a long long time BBSR-Sambalpur got properly connected in 1998-99.

By the next budget we will have 4 daily trains between BBSR-Sambalpur
(2 day trains, Puri-Hatia, Raipur-BBSR; plus Vijag-Amritsar,
BBSR-Mumbai,
Puri-Ahmedabad)

In 2005-06 BBSR Baripada got properly connected, and now there is a new
BBSR-Baripada triweekly train. (I am sure if there is passenger demand
for it, it will become daily.)

In 2006-07 BBSR-Keonjhar-Rajkharswan (between Tata and Rourkela) will get
done.

I hope this trend continues and in each of the future budgets at least 1
or 2 of the
lines get a good allotment so that every 3-4 years one of the lines
get finished,
amd various parts of Orissa get better connected.

(Some details on this are at http://www.orissalinks.com/#railways )

Besides the one needed for industries and ports (such as
Haridaspur-Paradeep; Anugul-Sukinda)
which can be funded from other sources, I am looking foward to the
completion of:

Talcher-Bimlagarh-Rourkela, (727 crore estimated budget)
http://eastcoastrailway.gov.in/index.php?pageid=107

Rupsa-Baripada-Buramara- (Bangiriposi)-Chakulia-Tata

KhurdaRd-Phulbani-Balangir (700 crore estimated budget)
http://eastcoastrailway.gov.in/index.php?pageid=44

Nuapada-Parlakimidi-Gunupur-Theruvalli (89 crore plus Gunupur-Theruvali)
http://eastcoastrailway.gov.in/index.php?pageid=61

Junagarh-Bhawanipatna-Lanjigarh Rd (67 crore)
http://eastcoastrailway.gov.in/index.php?pageid=46

Orissa govt should do its best to have all these complete in the next 10
years.
I think with 250-300 crore per year on the above, all of the above can be
done in 10 years and that
is a reasonable expectation if one were to extrapolate from this year,
as this year the allocation is a total of *321 crores* on new lines: Rs 19
crore for the Lanjigarha Rd - Bhawanipatna - Junagarh, Rs 23 crore for the
Khurda Rd- Balangir, Rs 155.58 crore Daitari-Keonjhar-Banspani, Rs 44 crore
for Haridaspur-Paradip, Rs 20 crore for Angul-Duburi-Sukinda Road, and Rs 10
crore for Talcher-Bimalgarh. Rs 15.89 crore has been sanctioned for gauge
conversion of Rupsa-Bangiriposi (Simlipal), Rs 34 crore for gauge conversion
of Nuapada-Parlakimidi-Gunpur project.

>From the maps at http://irfca.org/faq/faq-map-09.html
and http://irfca.org/faq/faq-map-10.html
and one will notice that the completion of the above (which the above rough
calculation
shows *is doable in 10 years*) will result in FIVE cross connections between
the east line
(Jaleswar-Rupsa-Baleswar-Bhadrakh-Jakhapura-Cuttack-Barang-BBSR-Berhempur-Nuapada-Vizag)

and the west line
(Tata-Rajkharswan-Chakradharpur-Rourkela-Jharsuguda-Sambalpur-Baragarh
Rd-Balangir-Titlagarh).

Those cross connections would be:

(i) Nuapada-Parkakimidi-Gunupur-Theruvali-Titlagarh
(ii) Khurda Rd-Phulbani-Balangir
(iii) Barang-Talcher-Anugul-Sambalpur
(iv) Jakhapura-Daitari-Keonjhar-Bansapani-Rajkharswan
(v) Rupsa-Baripada-Tata

This is besides the two north and south connections of Kharagpur-Tata and
Vijainagaram-Titlagarh.

This will really bring different parts of Orissa closer together, and
I am excited about that prospect. More on all this at the orissalinks.com
site I mentioned earlier.

Suresh Behera

Comments

[Medha Malhotra]

Mr.Suresh,
Firstly congratulations to have the courage to write such an article. I'm a student in NID, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and currently we are having a course Design Concepts and concerns and me and my fellow teammates are studying the eastern region. Orissa happens to be a part of our concerned region so wanted to ask you if you could spare some information to us. We are dealing wid the major economic issues in the region and transport and railways are a major issue. SO if you could add to this existing article telling us more about what YOU feel about the railway structure out there, and what more can be done. Also if you could enlighten us about more issues and problems in the region and also your suggestions... Your information would be of great help. Also if you could give us a direct contact of yours we'd b thankful.
Thank you!
NID students...

[Debdas Mishra]

I don't know why so much of injustice is on Rourkela when it comes to Railway Budget. Till now Rourkela do not have any direct train to UP, Rajasthan, and Punjub through about 4-5 lukhs north Indian stay at Rourkela. Even there is not a single good train to go to Delhi, though there are about six odd trains are ruuning between BBSR and Delhi. Similarly apart from the hopeless Dhanbad-Aleppy there is not a single train towards Chennai. Rourkela is not even connected to Berhampur by train though a huge number of people from Behampur stay here. Apart from Long distance Utkal Express there is not a single convenient train to northern an coastal districts of Mayurbhanj, Baleswar, Bhadrak, and Jajpur Road. I hereby request all the leaders of Orissa cutting across party line please come forward and fulfil some of the genuine demands of Rourkelaties.