Each August, nearly twenty lakh pilgrims complete one of Hinduism's most demanding acts of devotion — walking barefoot to Baba Baidyanath Dham — and arrive at Eastern Railway stations carrying the physical cost of their faith. This year, the railway chose to receive them not merely as passengers but as people in need, deploying round-the-clock medical teams at Jasidih and Deoghar to treat wounds, restore hydration, and prevent suffering from compounding in silence. It is a quiet institutional acknowledgment of an ancient truth: that care, offered at the right moment, is itself a form of infras
Eastern Railway deploys 24/7 medical teams to aid exhausted Shravani Mela pilgrims
Thousands of pilgrims suffered physical injuries, dehydration, heat exhaustion, and disorientation from prolonged barefoot walking and physical exertion during the Shravani Mela pilgrimage.