Indian Railways Manigram-Nimtita Part Electrified: All You Want To Know

Indian Railways Manigram-Nimtita Part: Railway Minister Piyush Goyal inaugurated the newly electrified Manigram-Nimtita part of the Japanese Railways zone, together with different railway infrastructure initiatives within the area. The  34 km lengthy Manigram-Nimtita part of the Japanese Railway zone has been electrified at a price of Rs.52.05 crore. The electrification will assist in lowering the carbon footprint and can assist inexperienced power for the railway zone. The Railway Minister additionally flagged off items prepare on newly electrified Manigram-Nimtita part which is probably going to offer a major enhance to the thermal industrial crops across the area. (Additionally Learn: Capex Utilisation In Devoted Freight Hall Undertaking Will increase 21% To ₹ 8,201 Crore )

The electrification work is part of the excessive utility community, or ‘Sagar Purvodaya Sampark Line’ from Howrah to Dibrugarh, in keeping with the Railway Ministry. A highway below bridge close to Malda and Manigram, 5 foot overbridges at Khagraghat highway, Lalbagh Court docket highway, Tenya, Dahaparadham and Niyalishpara stations, and two foot overbridges at Sujnipara and Basudebpur stations, had been inaugurated below Japanese Railway’s Malda Division by video conferencing on Wednesday, February 17. 

The electrified Manigram-Nimtita part will assist in switching over freight rake destined for the Sagardighi Thermal Energy Plant in addition to the Sonar Bangla Cement Plant from diesel to electrical traction. It’s going to additionally assist the for the conversion of passenger trains from diesel-electric a number of unit (DEMU) to mainline electrical a number of unit (MEMU) within the part. It will even save diesel and can contribute to the economic improvement of the realm.