Fulfilling its commitment to ensure availability of important raw material and fuel through its freight train services to meet the requirements of the power, transport and key infrastructure sectors during the nationwide lock down, NFR has transported huge quantity of Cement, Coal and POL products to every nook & corner within its jurisdiction apart from power houses located in various states.
Due to relentless operations of Railways, all power plants and Petroleum depots have comfortable stock with them inspite of COVID-19 related nationwide lock down.
During the lockdown period from 25th March to 30th April 2020, NFR transported 36 rakes of POL for unloading at various states within its area. 6(six) such POL rakes were unloaded at the Ramnagar IOC siding of Tripura to meet the requirement of that state. 4(four) rakes were unloaded at Patharkhola IOC sidings near Lumding, 2(two) POL rake was unloaded at Gumto siding of Arunachal Pradesh, 6(six) POL rakes were unloaded at New Guwahati and 7(seven) POL rakes were unloaded at the Bharmaputra Cracker Polimar Ltd, Dibrugarh. 10(ten) such POL rakes were unloaded at New Jalpaiguri and 2(two) at Malda Court stations.
Similarly, 6(six) rakes of cement were unloaded at New Guwahati, 5(five) rakes in Barpeta, 2(two) rakes each at New Tinsukia, Dekargaon and Harmuti stations. And 1(one) rake each at Silapathar, Dibrugarh and Haibargaon stations to fulfil the requirement of cement for constructions related works in nearby areas. 4(four) rakes of cement were unloaded at Bathnaha, 3(three) rakes at Purnea, 2(two) rakes at Kishanganj and 1(one) rake at Katihar to meet the need of local areas. 2(two) rakes of cement were also unloaded at Dalkhola and 1(one) rake at New Jalpaiguri of West Bengal.
Moreover, NFR also carried 67 coal loaded rakes from various parts of the country, which includes 55 rakes of coal for thermal power house at Salakati, Assam and 12(twelve) rakes at other locations for industries which uses coal for other purposes.
It is needless to say that this effort of NFR helped in avoiding the scarcity of essential POL products in all the states within its jurisdiction apart from helping the construction activities and keeping the thermal power houses and other allied industries in running conditions to keep the wheels of the economy moving in this critical period.
During this critical situation, Indian Railways staff deployed at various good sheds, stations, tracks and control offices apart from drivers, guards etc continued working with full devotion to ensure that the supply of essential items for these critical sectors does not gets affected. Movement of freight trains are being closely monitored by officials at very senior level during this lockdown period to ensure that there is no scarcity.
