ECoR, Bhubaneswar airport getting ready to resume services
BHUBANESWAR: Authorities of the Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) are ready for the resumption of domestic flights from Monday. Similarly, the East Coast Railway ( ECoR ) is also prepared to start scheduled trains from June 1.
BPIA director V V Rao said contact-less procedures were being readied at the airport.
“We have been prepared for resumption of flights since last week. We are looking after social distancing issues and sanitization of baggage as well as the buses taking them to the flights. We are ensuring complete touch-free mechanism at the airport,” he added.
Rao said security personnel would check passengers’ documents at the entrance of the terminal through a glass barrier or on a monitor fitted with a camera. “We have marked circles where passengers can stand to maintain social distancing. We have also arranged chairs in such a way that fliers can maintain distance from each other. We are yet to get information about the number of flights starting from Bhubaneswar,” he added.
Rao said security personnel would check passengers’ documents at the entrance of the terminal through a glass barrier or on a monitor fitted with a camera. “We have marked circles where passengers can stand to maintain social distancing. We have also arranged chairs in such a way that fliers can maintain distance from each other. We are yet to get information about the number of flights starting from Bhubaneswar,” he added.
ECoR, too, is preparing to run and receive 10 trains from June 1. Sources said four trains would originate from stations under ECoR jurisdiction and three would pass through Odisha. The originating trains are Bhubaneswar-Mumbai Konark Express , Jan Shatabdi Express between Bhubaneswar and Howrah, Purushottam Express from Puri to New Delhi and Duronto from Puri to Sealdah (Kolkata). The trains to run through ECoR jurisdiction are Howrah-Secunderabad Falaknuma Express, Dhanbad-Alleppey Express and Howrah-Yesvantpur Duronto.
“Apart from this, Howrah to Mumbai, Howrah to Ahmedabad and Howrah to Barbil special trains will also run through Odisha. The routes and schedule of the trains will be announced shortly,” said ECoR sources.
No Shramik Special train left Odisha for other states on Thursday. Only one train carrying migrant workers from Thiruvallur in Tamil Nadu reached Rourkela on the day., said an official.
Two trains — one from Erode in Tamil Nadu for Balangir and another from Bolarum near Secunderabad for Balangir — are expected to reach on Friday.
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