Bhubaneswar, April 9 -- Bhubaneswar: A day after the Odisha government urged the railway board to cancel all passenger trains to Chhattisgarh in view of the rising Covid-19 graph, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) authorities on Friday said that a decision is likely to be taken on the issue by evening.

Kaushalendra Khadanga, the Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) of ECoR said, "The issue of suspension of train services to and from Chhattisgarh from Odisha is being discussed among senior officials of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Railways and the State government. We are expecting a decision by this evening."

Khadanga said that at present 19 pairs of trains are operating from Chhattisgarh and out of which 15 pairs either origi...