GUWAHATI: Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has directed the Chief Secretary Alok Kumar to take steps for evacuating tourists and devotees from Assam visiting Odisha in view of the impending cyclonic storm ‘Fani’.
Sonowal asked the Chief Secretary to talk to NF Railway authority for providing special train services for bringing the tourists back to Assam from the costal state.
Meanwhile Chief Minister’s Media Advisor Hrishikesh Goswami also had a telephonic talk to many tourists from Assam who have gone to Odisha and enquired about their wellbeing and informed them about special trains that were pressed into services for immediately bringing them back to Assam.
In view of the impending crisis posed by Fani, higher official from Government of Assam on Thursday had a talk to the NF Railway Authority, as a result of which a couple of trains were pressed into service. The first train left Puri on Thursday at 12 noon and the second train left Puri at 3 pm while the third train started its journey at 6 pm.
