Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) transported over 6847 inbound goods trains since since lockdown began on March 25, 2020 until November 30,2020.12.8
Of this 1102 freighters were unloaded during the month of November, the highest ever monthly unloading.
This is 35.21 per cent more than the unloading of freight trains done during the corresponding month of last year (815 freight rakes were unloaded in NFR during November 2019).
Essential goods like FCI rice, Sugar, Salt, Edible oil, POL, Food grains, Fodder, Pulses, Fertilizer, Cement, Coal, Stone chips, Iron/Steal, Potato, Onion, Sand, Gypsum, Maize, Pulses, Auto, Container etc were being transported regularly to meet the needs of the people.
During November, in Assam 570 rakes of freight carrying trains were unloaded of which 301 were loaded with essential commodities. 27 rakes in Nagaland, 61 rakes in Tripura, 3 rakes in Manipur, 1 rake in Mizoram and 5 rakes in Arunachal Pradesh were also unloaded during last month. 243 freight rakes in West Bengal and 187 freight rakes in Bihar were also unloaded during last month within the jurisdiction of NFR to meet the requirement of people of these regions.
In Assam area 85 rakes loaded with Food items, 93 rakes of cement, 43 rakes of automobiles, 24 rakes of sugar, 27 rakes of coal for Power house, 22 rakes of fertilizer, 14 rakes of Edible oil and 50 rakes of petroleum products were unloaded. In Tripura 15 rakes of Food items, 36 rakes of stone, 1 rake of sugar, 2 rakes of automobiles and 1 rake of fertilizer were unloaded. In Arunachal Pradesh 1 rake of FCI items and 4 rakes of petroleum products were unloaded. In Manipur 1 rake loaded with FCI items, 2 rakes of cement were unloaded. In Mizoram 1 rake loaded with FCI items were unloaded. In Nagaland 8 rakes of FCI items, 7 rakes of petroleum products and 5 rakes of cement were unloaded during last month.
In Bihar portion of NFR 60 rakes of cement, 35 rakes of Food items, 35 rakes of fertilizer, 16 rakes of salt and 9 rakes of sugar, 18 rakes of stone, 12 rakes of Iron/Steel were unloaded. In North Bengal portion of NFR 43 rakes of Food items, 75 rakes of cement, 41 rakes of fertilizer, 2 rakes of salt, 7 rakes of sugar and 26 rakes of Petroleum products were unloaded.
Improved terminal handling facility and improvement in mobility due to enhanced maintenance efforts & continuous monitoring at all level resulted in increased unloading and reduction in turnaround time. Average speed of goods carrying trains in NFR also increased to almost double.
