PR / IH Desk
MALIGAON, April 07, 2020: Northeast Frontier Railway will be operating one Parcel Express train as per fixed Time Table timings on 11.04.2020 in order to ensure transportation of essential goods in small quantity in the wake of COVID-19 to parts of Assam & Tripura. The train will start from New Guwahati /Guwahati for Agartala with stoppages at Hojai, Lumding Jn, New Haflong, Badarpur Jn,Dharmanagar and Kumarghat during its journey.
The Parcel express train will start from Guwahati at 04-15 am on April 11. It will arrive Lumding at 09-00 am and leave at 09-15 am. It will arrive Badarpur at 02-30 pm and leave at 02-45 pm and will arrive Agartala at 09-15 pm same day. The planned duration of stoppage in all these stations will be about 15 minutes for loading and unloading of Parcel packages.
Parcel booking for this train will remain open from 10:00 am of April 9 to 06:00 pm of April 10 for all interest parties. Booking of materials can be done for any of enroute stoppages.
The interested traders and customers including government agencies/dept may contact the respective Station Manager or any of the following officials for more details:
Senior Divisional Commercial Manager / Lumding (mob-9957553950), Asst. Commercial Manager / Guwahati (mob-9957553954), Area Manager / Badarpur (mob-9957553901), Carriage Supt (Parcel) / New Guwahati (mob-9706126779) or Commercial Control / Lumding (mob-9957553915).
It may be mentioned here that, Indian Railways has made railway parcel vans available for quick mass transportation across the nation for the needy E - Commerce companies and other customers including State governments. Provision of Parcel trains and rapid transportation of goods will further bolster the efficiency of supply chains during the lock down period. This will help in movement of essential items viz Dairy Products, Medical Equipments and Medicines, Groceries, Edible oil and other necessary items like baby food etc. in small quantities as well.
Parcel specials trains are also running in New Delhi – Guwahati, Moga - Changsari, Kalyan - Guwahati, Shalimar - New Guwahati routes and vice – versa with necessary items for all segments of the society. Industrial houses, companies, any interested groups, organizations, individuals may easily avail of these services. Interested parties may also approach the Railway Parcel Offices and Divisions for further details.
Moreover, loading, transportation and unloading of essential commodities like food grains, coal, POL, sugar, salt and edible oil for consumption of the common man through freight trains has been in full swing in NFR during this nationwide lock down.