Northeast Frontier Railway unloaded 812 rakes of freight during September

GUWAHATI: The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has already transported more than 4,535 inbound freight trains from March 25 to 30, 2020. Of this, 812 freight carrying trains were unloaded during September. Goods like FCI rice, sugar, salt, edible oil, petroleum products (POL), food grains, fodder, pulses, fertilizer, cement, coal, stone chips, iron/steel, potato, onion, sand, gypsum, maize, pulses, automobiles, container etc., were transported regularly to not only meet the essential requirement of the common people but also to keep the local economic activity going in the north-eastern States.

During September, of the 527 rakes unloaded in Assam, 322 were loaded with essential commodities; 32 rakes were unloaded in Nagaland; 58 in Tripura, 87 in West Bengal and 96 in Bihar within the jurisdiction of NFR last month. In the Assam area, 109 rakes loaded with FCI items, 79 of cement, 40 of automobiles, 27 of sugar, 19 of fertilizer and 40 of petroleum products were unloaded.

In Tripura, 12 rakes of FCI items were unloaded during that month besides three rakes each of petroleum products, and automobiles; two each of cement and sugar; and one rake of salt.

In Arunachal Pradesh, two rakes each of FCI items and petroleum products were unloaded. In Bihar, portion of NFR, 70 rakes of cement were unloaded besides 31 of FCI items; 12 of fertilizer, 13 of salt and four rakes of sugar. In the North Bengal portion of NFR, 50 rakes of FCI items were unloaded besides 60 of cement; 31 of fertilizer, 16 rakes of petroleum products; six of salt, and five rakes of sugar.

Improved terminal handling facility and improvement in mobility due to enhanced maintenance efforts and continuous monitoring at all levels resulted in the reduction in the turnaround time and also increased unloading. The average speed of the goods-carrying trains in NFR also increased.

During these challenging times of COVID-19 pandemic, the Indian Railways has been playing a significant role in providing its uninterrupted services for transportation of all essential commodities and lifesaving drugs and medical equipments. The huge transportation of food grains, POL and other essential and various other items by NFR was the main reason for avoiding any scarcity of such items within its service area during the lock-down period and beyond, stated a release.

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