Ministry of Civil Aviation on Saturday advised airline companies to keep an eye on the unusual surge in fares of flights coming to and from Bhubaneswar
CM KCR requested the State and Union Governments to take steps to provide better treatment to the injured and extend adequate support to the families of those who lost their lives in the accident.
Before leaving for Odisha from Delhi, the Prime Minister chaired a high-level meeting with regard to the tragic train mishap at the Bahanagar Bazar railway station on Friday evening.
Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav said "There should be a high-level inquiry and action should be taken against those responsible for it...There was major negligence. They have destroyed Railways,"
Anup Kumar Satpathy said that the number of passengers in the general coach has yet to be confirmed. However, the number of casualties and injured is yet to be known.
By Saturday afternoon the number of people who were killed in the incident had gone up to 261 while around 900 have been been injured, according to officials
Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy urged the creation of inquiry and grievance cells in the district collectors' offices to handle complaints and provide prompt resolution
The train crash, one of the deadliest in the country, took place in Balasore district about 250 km south of Kolkata and 170 km north of Bhubaneswar around 7 pm on Friday