Junagarh Road railway station is a terminus station belonging to

Indian Railways Indian Railways (IR) is a statutory body under the ownership of Ministry of Railways, Government of India that operates India's national railway system. It manages the fourth largest national railway system in the world by size, with a tot ...

Kalahandi district Kalahandi (locally pronounced ''Kalahani'') is a district of Odisha in India. Archaeological evidence of Stone Age and Iron Age human settlement has been recovered from the region. Asurgarh offered an advanced, well civilised, cultured and ur ...

Odisha Odisha (English: , ), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the 8th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. The state has the third largest population of ...

State in India.

History

The proposal for a

Lanjigarh Lanjigarh is a town in Lanjigarh Tehsil in Kalahandi district in Odisha State. Lanjigarh is 58 km away from Bhawanipatna and 430 km from Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar (; ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Odisha. The ...

– Junagarh line came in 1991, when

Bhakta Charan Das Bhakta Charan Das (born 26 November 1958) is an Indian politician. He was a member of the Indian Parliament and represented the Kalahandi constituency in the 15th Lok Sabha. Das graduated from the Sambalpur University and, with a background ...

was the state railway minister. The line was announced in the rail budget of 1992. After nearly twenty years, the line was completed in 2011, and Bhawanipatna railway station was opened by Das on 11 August 2012. On the same day, the first Bhawanipatna–Bhubaneshwar link express started from Bhawanipatna.

Opened

The

Lanjigarh–Junagarh section The Lanjigarh–Junagarh section belongs to the Sambalpur division of East Coast Railway Zone The East Coast Railway (abbreviated ECoR) is one of the 19 railway zones of Indian Railways. It came into existence on 1 April 2003. The headquar ...

was completed by 2 March 2014 and the Bhubaneswar–Bhawanipatna Express was extended to Junagarh. Junagarh railway station was inaugurated by Minister of State for Railways

Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury (born 2 April 1956) is an Indian politician serving as the leader of the Indian National Congress in the 17th Lok Sabha and the Member of Parliament from Berhampore. He is also the current president of West Bengal Pradesh ...

in the presence of Bhakta Charan Das on 3 March 2014.

Future plans

There are plans by the Government of Odisha and

to extend the existing Lanjigarh–Junagarh line to

Jeypore Jeypore is one of the largest towns and a place of historical significance in Koraput district in the Indian state of Odisha. It was established by Vir Vikram Dev in the mid 17th century. The kingdom was defeated by the East India Company in ...

Kothavalasa–Kirandul line Kothavalasa–Kirandul line belongs to Waltair railway division of East Coast Railway zone from 2003 till Feb 2019 . It was under South Eastern Railway zone until 2003. Now some Part of KK line till Araku railway Station will be coming under S ...

, and further to

Malkangiri Malkangiri historically known as 'Malikamardhangiri' is a town and a Municipality in Malkangiri district in the Indian state of Odisha. It is the headquarters of the Malkangiri district. Malkangiri is the new home of the East Pakistani refugee ...

and

Bhadrachalam Bhadrachalam is a census town in Bhadradri Kothagudem district in the Indian state of Telangana. It is an important Hindu pilgrimage town with the Bhadrachalam Temple of Lord Rama, situated on the banks of Godavari river. It is located east o ...

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. Survey work is being planned for this purpose.

References

Sambalpur railway division Railway stations in Kalhandi district Railway stations in India opened in 2014 2014 establishments in Odisha {{Odisha-railstation-stub