Odisha CM flags-off special pilgrimage train for senior citizens

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Odisha CM flags-off special pilgrimage train for senior citizens Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik flagged-off Barishta Nagarika Tirtha Jatra train, a special pilgrimage train for the senior citizens, here on Thursday.

Patnaik flagged-off the first Barishta Nagarika Tirtha Jatra train of the second edition at Bhubaneswar railway station in the presence of Tourism & Culture Minister Ashok Panda, Women & Child Development Minister Prafulla Samal and Bhubaneswar MLAs Priyadarshi Mishra and Bijay Kumar Mohanty, BMC Mayor Ananta Narayan Jena and other dignitaries.

As many as 1024 pilgrims, from central division comprising of 10 districts, left by the special train to Pushkar and Ajmer in Rajasthan. They will return on 30th November.

This scheme, an initiative of Tourism Department of the state government, is meant for the senior citizens to give them a chance of lifetime to visit the important pilgrimage centres of the country.

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