Guwahati, March 27 (MExN): The North East Frontier Railway (NFR) launched a drive to make the zone free of scrap and achieved a sale value of Rs. 83.47 crore – its best in recent years. “During this financial year, about 21,000 metric tons of Engineering scrap, 45 locomotives, 96 coaches, 1100 metric tons of Bridge Girders along with 7900 metric tons of Ferrous and 902 metric tons of Non-ferrous of scrap generated from the two Workshop at New Bongaigaon and Dibrugarh and 3 diesel shades at New Guwahati, Siliguri and Malda Town were offered for sale,” Pranav Jyoti Sharma, Chief Public Relations Officer of the NFR stated. It may be mentioned here that the Ministry of Railways has laid much focus on cleanliness of work area and clean work place environment. Towards this end, the Railways generated a system for disposal of scrap through e- Auction in fair and transparent manner and financial targets are fixed by Railway Board for every year. “For this current year the target was Rs.3000 crores which was achieved 9 days in advance of closure of financial year,” Sharma added.
