Northeast Frontier Railway officials inspect railway tracks
to ensure passenger safety and infrastructure integrity.
- DIMAPUR — The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR)
is proactively implementing comprehensive measures to maintain uninterrupted
and safe train services across the North Eastern region, particularly in
response to the ongoing heavy monsoon rains.
- “Recognising the challenges posed by the region’s complex
terrain and severe weather conditions, NFR has intensified its monitoring and
maintenance activities to ensure passenger safety and infrastructure
integrity,” the NFR stated in a press release.
- To support its efforts towards addressing the track safety
and stability during this monsoon, the NFR has deployed stationary watchmen at
all vulnerable locations, with particular emphasis on critical sections such as
Lumding–Badarpur hills section and various locations in Tripura.
- Regular patrolling is being conducted to monitor track and
infrastructure conditions. Senior officials, including the additional general
manager and divisional railway managers of NFR, are personally supervising the
situation continuously.
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- “Trolley patrolling is being carried out by officers to
ensure close monitoring and regular inspections are being undertaken. To
further strengthen ground-level vigilance, senior officers have also been
deputed in the field to closely monitor vulnerable locations and coordinate
prompt responses as needed,” it stated.
