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Azadi Express sojourn in Berhampur

— Photo: Lingaraj Panda

Learning experience: School children taking a look at the exhibits inside the Azadi Express, which arrived at the Berhampur Railway Station on Saturday.

BERHAMPUR: Azadi Express the mobile railway exhibition on past, present and future of India started its journey in Orissa from Berhampur from Saturday.

The Indian railways and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting are running this unique exhibition on train to mark the 150 years of independence.

It was flagged off from New Delhi on Sept 28, 2007. Union Minister for Rural Development Chandrasekhar Sahu and veteran freedom fighter of Ganjam district, Bhavani Patnaik were present at the Berhampur railway station to greet the Azadi express.

Around 3,000 students from different schools were also present at the station to see the exhibition.

The train, which is painted in the colours of the tricolour would remain at Berhampur station for three days.

Then it will have three day sojourn in Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Sambalpur and Rourkela.

Each coach of this exhibition carries a particular epoch of Indian history. The total exhibition has been divided into three main sections.

They are ‘India’s first freedom struggle in 1857, the era of Independence and the all round development in post-independence era. To provide the visitors a multimedia experience all coaches have televisions attached to them.

These TV screens showed events of historic importance like first address to nation by the first prime minister of India, first Indian in space etc. Through hidden speakers patriotic songs played inside the train provided a great backdrop for the visitors to the exhibition. Children, youths as well their parents felt it was a unique effort to brush up general knowledge about the country. Chinmayee Nayak, a student of the city after visiting the exhibition said, “The knowledge about my country that I got from this exhibition made me more proud to be an Indian”.

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