Raja Parija, a retired OAS, in a letter to additional divisional manager, East Coast Railway, alleged unauthorised lifting of photographs from his book and displaying them in the Netaji Gallery of Cuttack railway station. “Most of the photographs in the gallery have been taken page-wise from my book along with the captions without taking prior permission or giving credit,” he wrote.

Claiming to be an independent researcher, he further said that the alleged use of materials from his book without giving photo credit is a ‘serious offence’ which is punishable under the provisions of the Copyright Act, 1975. “It seems your organisation probably understand only the language of the court,” he warned, plausibly unhappy with ECoR not having responded to a communication sent 2 months ago.

On June 29, Parija had sought ‘compensation’ for taking the photographs from his book, photo credit to him an a letter acknowledgment for using them.

While threatening the railway authorities of legal action if he did not receive a quick response within a month, he appreciated the move to set up the gallery. “It is indeed a very good initiative taken by the railway authorities in the name of India’s greatest hero, Netaji Subash Chandra Bose whose birthplace is in Cuttack.”

Sources in ECoR told the media that the allegations are being looked into.

This third line railway section was commissioned after inspection of last patch of work between Mancheswar and Bhubaneswar by the Commissioner Railway Safety (CRS) and the required sanction, ECoR said in a press release.

This is an important Safety Related work to link tracks. Signalling System works have also been taken up for a hassle-free train movement between Barang and Khurda Road in future.

After completion of this project works, train services between Barang and Khurda Road will be easier as trains to and from Naraj route and Cuttack Route and from Puri and Berhampur side will not face any difficulties.

To make hassle free traffic movement, ECoR has cancelled and partially cancelled some of the trains, temporarily.

The major focus on the scheduling of trains was to keep the requirements of daily passengers in consideration; hence all efforts were made for minimum hindrance to passengers. After completion of this work, the bottleneck area for train movements like in Cuttack, Bhubaneswar, Khurda Road will be easier.

Apart from this, ECoR had also announced about the cancellation and partial cancellation of trains much prior to the actual dates. It was also made available through social media. It is appealed to all passengers to go through these details before planning their journey.