Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu will flag off the goods trains services from Assam's Badarpur to connect Tripura and Manipur on February 20, a Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) official today said.
Two goods trains would be flagged off by the Minister for Jirania station in Tripura and Jiribam in Manipur's East Imphal district, NFR spokesman Pranav Jyoti Sharma said.
Earlier NFR had announced that laying of tracks from Badarpur to Agartala would be completed before March 31, but it has already been completed and awaiting clearance from Commissioner Railway Safety (CRS), Sharma said adding, the CRS clearance was likely to be completed before March 31.
Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha, who had visited the state last month and received the first broad-gauge trial train on the newly laid Badarpur-Agartala railway line, had said passengers trains would be flagged off from here to Guwahati to give a boost to connectivity in the North Eastern region.
A NFR statement said, construction was continuing in the 111km long Jiribam-Tupul-Imphal new line project and NFR would be achieving connectivity to all Northeastern state capitals by 2020.
NFR has been developing railway infrastructures in ten states -- Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, parts of West Bengal and Bihar, the statement added.
