Migrant worker delivers in Shramik Special train, third such case in Odisha

A 19-year-old woman delivered a baby boy in a Shramik Special train that was on its way to Bolangir from Telangana on Friday morning, in the third case of childbirth by incoming migrant workers aboard such train.

East Coast Railway officials said Meena Kumbhar was travelling from Lingampali area of Telangana to Balangir in a Shramik Special train with her family and went into labour just before Titlagarh station.

The train was halted at Titlagarh station at 5.40am, following which a railway doctor checked the mother-son duo. Both were doing well.