Each year, the Shravani Mela draws millions of barefoot devotees toward Baba Baidyanath Dham, one of Hinduism's most sacred shrines — and each year, the journey extracts a physical toll that faith alone cannot heal. This season, Eastern Railway chose to meet that toll not as a logistical inconvenience but as a moral obligation, deploying round-the-clock medical teams at Jasidih and Deoghar stations to tend to nearly two million pilgrims whose feet, bodies, and spirits bore the weight of devotion. In doing so, the railway offered a quiet reminder that institutions, at their best, do not merely
Eastern Railway provides round-the-clock medical care to 20 lakh Shravani Mela pilgrims
Thousands of pilgrims suffer from foot injuries, dehydration, heat exhaustion, and disorientation requiring emergency medical intervention during the pilgrimage.