AGARTALA, April 22 (TIWN): The latest trends and status shows that the BG passenger train will kick off the service by the end of this month to usher new stages of development in Tripura.

Passenger and goods train services from Tripura to rest of the country will start this month, official sources asserted.

The source further said that Railway Ministry has already sent sanction letter for plying goods train from this month up to Jirania, and the state asked the Food Corporation of India (FCI) to take steps for unloading foodgrains in the Jirania station.

Besides, the Kanchanjangha Express would also be operational from here as an originating station from this month.

The ministry has also agreed to start passenger trains from Agartala to Silchar from April; Tripura came to the broad gauge railway map in March this year.

The first goods train reached here on a trial run on February 22 from Assam’s Badarpur town.

The Badarpur-Agartala railway track conversion began from October 1 and the entire work is completed much before the stipulated March 2016 deadline.

A total of around 227 km of track from Badarpur to Agartala is almost completed before March 31, 2016. It was possible because narrow gauge track was laid in a big portion of the track in Broad Gauge format. Besides, other works like construction of railway stations, staff quarters or creation of water bodies have already been completed.

Agartala will find a place in the railway map. Earlier in the first phase, 220-km-long gauge conversion was completed on the Lumding-Silchar route. In the second phase, the long Badarpur-Agartala section is converted.

With the introduction of the BG facility, one could return from Guwahati to Agartala, capital town of the landlocked State –Tripura in a journey spanning around eight hours and if things fall in place, the ongoing work of BG conversion work from Lumding to Agartala via Badarpur would be completed shortly and the trial run will also carried out smoothly.

With the everyday progress in the conversion work, the common mass of the state is observing a ray of hope for faster communication and transportation.

Days are not so far when after the BG (Broad gauge) conversion work, Agartala will also be connected with by BG track with country’s railway network.

The pace of the conversion work shows that Agartala will soon be connected with the BG track to bring in sync with the rest of the country.

The successful run of the trains on the broad-gauge track will bring sync with those in the rest of the country and Tripura is gearing up for faster connectivity and communication with several parts of the nation.