In order to ensure that Kitchens of all Indian homes continue to run normally and farmers in agriculture sector continue to get all necessary inputs for farming, during last 12 days from 1st April to 12th April 2020, railways loaded and carried 36,724 wagons of food grain, 861 wagons of sugar, 1,753 wagons of salt, 606 wagons/tanks of edible oil and 14,317 wagons of fertilizers. Indian Railways has also identified 63 routes for parcel special trains since the start of the lock down for moving perishable commodities and timetabled trains are being run on these routes.
