Assam: All NF Railway Stations To Be 100% Lit By LED By End Of Month

NF Railway is going strong in reducing the carbon footprint within its premises thereby contributing as well as promoting a greener environment.
NF Railway is going strong in reducing the carbon footprint within its premises thereby contributing as well as promoting a greener environment.
After a much anticipated wait, the electric train service in N. F. Railway became a reality with running of 55704 Katihar – Malda Court Passenger train with Electric engines recently.
Assam Governor Banwarilal Purohit on Wednesday said that solar energy was considered to be the best option for meeting energy requirements of modern day life as it belongs to the renewable category.
The Union Minister of State for Railways Rajen Gohain on Wednesday said the Centre has fixed a target to connect all state capitals to Delhi by rail to help farmers sell their products.
The railway service of Agartala (India) and Akhaura (Bangladesh) is expected to begin from 2019.
The train services to the Northeast region from the rest of the country continue to be disrupted due to flood even as the Railway Board on Wednesday directed all Zonal railways to cancel trains travelling from various parts of the country beyond Malda town in West Bengal and Katihar in Bihar till August 20, 2017.
A biofuel refinery, the first of its kind in India, set up at the Numaligarh Refinery (NRL) in Assam, will soon process biofuel from bamboo, abundantly found in Arunachal Pradesh, Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said recently.
Union MoS for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan assured support to tap the huge bamboo resources of Arunachal Pradesh, which remains unused to its potential that can change the economy of rural masses.
Manarchak power plant in Sonamura subdivision of Tripura would be formally inaugurated by Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal. Goyal is scheduled to arrive here on May 29.
Assam Transport Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary on Thursday announced that the second bridge over Brahmaputra at Saraighat would be inaugurated by Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on January 1, 2017