Rail minister rolls up his sleeve; takes feedback from passengers during ride

• Ditching VIP protocol, Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw boarded a train in Odisha. Vaishnaw interacted with the passengers to gauge what they felt about railway services. The minister took Hirakhand Express for an overnight journey from Bhubaneswar to Rayagada. Vaishnaw also talked about PM Modi's vision on railways & its development in the nation. The union minister undertook the Jan Ashirwad Yatra & arrived in Bhubaneswar on Thursday. Vaishnaw is on a 4-day visit to Odisha from where he has been elected as a Rajya Sabha MP. The bureaucrat-turned politician was recently made a cabinet minister under the Modi govt.