Bhubaneswar, Sept. 8 -- Bhubaneswar: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has requested Railway Minister Piyush Goyal to start Shramik special trains from Odisha to states like Gujarat, Karnataka and Maharashtra so that the migrant workers can go back to their workplaces smoothly amid the resumption of normalcy and lifting of nation-wide lockdown imposed in the country since March due to the outbreak of Covid-19.

In his letter to the Railway Minister, Pradhan said that he has received a number of requests from migrant workers in Odisha who have urged that train services be started from Odisha so that they can reach their workplace.

"There was a mass exodus of migrant workers from States like Gujarat, Karnataka and Maharashtra to Odisha in ...