Guwahati, July 17 (UNI) After around 70 days, the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), follow- ing the restoration of the damaged railway tracks, will resume passenger train services in the Lumding-Badarpur section in Assam on July 22 to connect Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur and the southern part of Assam with the rest of the country, officials said on Sunday. NFR’s Chief Public Relations Officer, Sabyasachi De said that freight train services were started on July 12 in the Lumding- Badarpur section via Dima Hasao mountainous district, which is the only rail route to connect Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, and the southern Assam with the other parts of the country.
In the hill section un- der Lumding Division both passenger and freight train services were canceled due to the heavy rains and un- precedented landslides on May 14. “Railway officials, engineers, workers worked day and night to bring back the national transporter on track in these affected areas so that scarcity of essential items in states like Manipur, Tripura, Mizoram, and Barak Valley (southern As- sam) areas.
