The North East Frontier (NFR) Railways has run more than 100 parcel trains to carry essential items in the region.
A press release from the NFR stated that the special parcel trains arrived at Guwahati, New Guwahati, Azara, Changsari, Agatala & New Tinsukia from major industrial hubs situated in Delhi, Mumbai, Nagpur, Bangalore and Kolkata Area.
Goods were unloaded for quick distribution of essential commodities to remote markets to provide relief to the public. In order to ensure hassle free booking and delivery of Parcel & freight consignments, all Railway Officials at every level were put into the job so that wheels of rail never stopped. Northeast Frontier Railway achieved to deliver such huge quantity of essential commodity with mandatory skeleton staff.
These inbound Parcel Express trains carried essential commodities like milk, various ,milk products, medicine, mask, Personal Protection Equipment, sanitizer for hospital uses, sanitizer for personal use, Maggi and other Nestle products, fresh fruits, baby foods, AmulTaza, Amul Ghee etc. to this region. NFR has also played a pivotal role in ensuring the availability of essential commodities and medical equipment in this region.
The parcel trains being operated include: Guwahati – Agartala & back, 2. Guwahati – Dibrugarh & back Guwahati – Mandipathar & back; and Dimapur – Howarh & back 5. New Jalpaiguri – Guwahati & back 6. Guwahati – Securderabad & back.
1640 ton of material containing sanitizer, mask, medicine, blood sample bags, other goods etc has been transported and & Rs.65 lakhs has been collected by the Railways as revenue.
With an objective to provide transport solution to much needed Agriculture sector of Assam Area, NFR operated one round trip time tabled Covid -19 Kissan Parcel Train in between Guwahati – Dibrugarh with intermediate halt at Jagiroad, Chaparmukh Jn., Hojai, Lumding, Diphu, Dimapur, Sarupathar, FarkatingJn, Mariani Jn., Simaluguri Jn., Duliajan & New TinsukiaJn in both direction on regular interval.
Recently, e-commerce portal Amazon and India Post availed the parcel special services from Guwahati to book their consignments to New Delhi and Kolkata area. So far, NFR has been able to book more than 2000 packages & earned Rs. 3 lakhs. Earlier, this traffic was pre-dominantly transported through roadways & airways.
