Northeast Frontier Railway unloaded 1262 freight rakes in January 2025
Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), in its commitment towards ensuring the supply of both essential and non-essential commodities to every corner of the states under its jurisdiction, successfully unloaded 1262 freight-carrying rakes in January, 2025
- DIMAPUR — The
Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), in its commitment towards ensuring the supply
of both essential and non-essential commodities to every corner of the states
under its jurisdiction, successfully unloaded 1262 freight-carrying rakes in
January, 2025
- In an update, the NFR stated that this marked the highest
number of rakes unloaded in a single month during the FY 2024-25, bringing the
total count of unloaded rakes to 10,666 by the end of January, 2025.
- NFR transported goods, including essential item like FCI
rice, sugar, salt, edible oil, food grains, fertiliser, tank, coal and other
items during the month and unloaded them in different goods sheds within its
jurisdiction.
- During the month of January, 2025, a total of 673 rakes of
freight carrying trains were unloaded in Assam out of which 296 were loaded
with essential commodities; 111 rakes in Tripura, 18 rakes in Nagaland, 11
rakes in Arunachal Pradesh, 08 rakes in Manipur and 09 rakes in Mizoram were
unloaded during the month, it stated.
- Moreover, 230 freight rakes in West Bengal and 202 freight
rakes in Bihar were also unloaded during the month of January, 2025 within the
jurisdiction of NFR.
- “Speedy execution of doubling works at important sections,
advanced terminal handling facilities has led to increased inward and outward
movement of freight transportation.
- “Continuous monitoring at all levels has also resulted in
reduction of turnaround time and has increased unloading efficiency. This
results in increase movement of essential and other commodities in addition
growth in freight unloading,” the update stated.
