4 Trains from (NYN)NAINI to (SGO)SAUGOR

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SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY

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PRESS RELEASE

RUNNING OF WEEKLY SPECIAL TRAIN BETWEEN

SANTRAGACHI AND HABIBGANJ

Kolkata, 2^nd February, 2021:

Keeping in view the demand of the passengers, it has been decided to run Weekly Humsafar Special Train between Santragachi and Habibganj w.e.f. 03.02.2021 from Habibganj and w.e.f. 04.02.2021 from Santragachi till further advice.

02158 Santragachi-Habibganj Weekly Humsafar Special leaving Santragachi every Thursday at 20.30 hrs will arrive Habibganj at 20.10 hrs the next day.

In the return direction, 02157 Habibganj-Santragachi Weekly Humsafar Special leaving Habibganj every Wednesday at 14.40 hrs will arrive Santragachi at 15.35 hrs the next day.

The train with fourteen AC Three Tier and four Sleeper Class coaches will have stoppages at Kharagpur, Tatanagar, Chakradharpur, Rourkela, Jharsuguda, Raigarh, Bilaspur, Shahdol, Katni Murwara, Damoh, Saugor, Bina and Vidisha stations between Santragachi and Habibganj.

Passengers are requested to strictly follow all the safety protocols before and during journey in the wake of COVID-19 Pandemic.

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Improvement in loading of food grains, fertilizer and other agriculture related items o­n North Central Railway

As o­n 08.12.2020, North Central Railway in the current financial year has loaded 10.54 million tonnes freight which is 1.9 lakhs tonnes more as compared to freight loaded in the same period of last financial year. Despite Covid-19 situation, this improvement could be achieved due to substantial increase of 40 % in food grains loading and 5% improvement in fertiliser loading over last year.Transportation of goods through railway is safer,faster, eco-friendly and cost-effective over other modes of transport and increased transport of food grains and other agriculture related items through railway is an important indicator of growth in agriculture and affiliated sectors and connects farmers to new and emerging markets.

North Central Railway has taken many steps for improving loading of food grains and other commodities which include improvement in 17 goods sheds over the three divisions; finalisation of station to station rates allowing rebate upto 30 % for additional and new traffic stream of food grains from Etah, Kherali, Datia, Dabra, Rayaru, Lalitpur, Mathura etc; capturing new traffic of tractor loading at ICD Dadri; capturing new traffic through loading of food grain etc. in mini and half rakes; capturing food grain export traffic to Bangladesh etc.

Some of the recent achievement in loading food grains and other agriculture related items o­n the Prayagraj Division are opening of Iradatganj for food grain loading after gap of approximately06 years, loading of 20 food grain rakes from in last 1.5 months from Naini, loading of tractors in 100 NMG wagons from ICD dadri , capturing new traffic and loading of food grains in121 wagons at Pankidham etc. o­n Agra division marketing efforts by BDUs resulted in first ever food grain loading in 02 mini rakes from Mathura. Similarly, Jhansi Division has loaded 1.5 Lakhs tonnes food grains in November-2020 which is best ever performance of the division in agricultureproduce transportation.