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Travel to Raigarh


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Raigarh is a station on the Tatanagar–Bilaspur section of Howrah-Nagpur-Mumbai line. It is well connected with almost all major cities like New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Kota, Ahmedabad, Jaipur e.t.c. A proposed broad gauge line going to connect Raigarh to pussore and Dharamjaygarh via Bhupdeopur and realigned to serve the city of Naya Raigarh as well. The main railway station Raigarh is situated near the heart of the city.Even, South Eastern Coalfields (SECL) and IRCON has joined hands with the state government of Chhattisgarh for expanding the railway infrastructure. The government has made the plans for expansion so that it is easy and convenient for travelers and freight carriage. Under the MoU, which has been signed, by IRCON and SECL with the state government, the plan is for developing two rail corridors over an area of three hundred kilometers. The MoU was signed in Raipur last week. The state government said, “The total cost which is estimated for building two new rail corridors, which is East and East West will be four thousand crore.” The preliminary working process on both the corridors will start by the end of 2012. The east rail corridor will start from Bhupdevpur to Gharghoda to Dharamjaygarh to Korba and will spread over an area of one hundred and eighty kilometers and Bhupdeopur to dongamuah and also bhupdeopur to pussorre NTPC.

There are 5 small railway stations for local/passenger trains in other parts of the city. These are

Kirodimal Railway Station

Bhupdeopur Railway Station

Kotarliya Railway Station (Delhi Public School Raigarh Campus),

Jamgaon Railway Station

Robertson Railway Station

Air

Kondatarai Airport is a proposed city's airport located 15 km away from the center. A Four Lane road is proposed on NH216 road which will connect
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