Maligaon, September 3 (MExN): The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has transported more than 3723 inbound freight trains from March 25 to August 31. Out of this, 897 freight carrying trains were unloaded during the month of August only, a press statement from NFR CPRO Subhanan Chanda informed on September 3. This is an almost 20% increase in year on year basis as compared to 722 freight carrying rakes which were unloaded in NFR during August, 2019. Goods like FCI rice, sugar, salt, edible oil, pol, food grains, fodder, pulses, fertilizer, cement, coal, stone chips, iron/steel, potato, onion, sand, gypsum, maize, pulses, auto, container etc were being transported regularly to not only meet the essential requirement of common people but also to keep the local economic activity of all the NE states going, the statement added.
