AGARTALA, Aug 11 (TIWN): Due to Manik Sarkar Govt’s massive failures to run administration to address basic needs of people, Modi Govt finally donning State Govt’s role to end petrol crisis in Tripura. For the first time trucks loaded with fuel on flat-wagons have already entered to the soil of Tripura on Thursday. According to the source, the first train loaded with fuel on flat-wagons have entered the state and has left from Badarpur Bhangar station and will soon enter Churraebari station. As promised by Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu, the special trains will enter Tripura with petrol tankers to curb the acute crisis of petrol in the state. During the inauguration of Agartala-Delhi express train at Agartala Railway Station, demand raised from CPI-M, the ruling party in Tripura for special trains to carry oil tankers for Tripura following 2 months of petrol scarcity, and Suresh Prabhu, Central Union Railway Minister had immediately announced “I was not at all acknowledged about this demand, tell me what you want”—and thus finally after a completing few unfinished works on railway tracks, the oil tankers are to arrive in Tripura via train.Fulfilling the promise made by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu at Agartala on 1 st August to help the state of Tripura mitigate the fuel crisis, the Northeast Frontier Railway has started a Roll On Roll Off (RoRo) service to carry trucks loaded with fuel on flat-wagon goods train for Tripura.

The road connecting Tripura with Assam had been in very poor shape creating serious bottleneck in transportation of commodities including fuel into Tripura.

This had resulted in serious fuel crisis in Tripura. The RoRo scheme introduced by the Railways will help the loaded trucks to piggyback on goods train to bypass the damaged national highway near Churaibari. This will bring much relief to the common man in Tripura.

The RoRo service, first introduced in Konkan Railway in 1999, is being introduced in N. F. Railway for the first time.

Although military movement have been done in the past on flat wagons, this is for the first time that commercial goods movement is being done by RoRo mode.

To help the state of Tripura mitigate the fuel crisis, the Northeast Frontier Railway will start a Roll On Roll Off (RoRo) service to carry trucks loaded with fuel on flat-wagon goods train in Tripura.

In the first lot 30 DBKM (flat bedded) wagons with each having a capacity to carry two loaded trucks will be placed at Bhanga, as the source informed.

Fuel tanker trucks will be loaded on these by means of end-loading ramp.The tankers will be securely fixed on the wagon floor to ensure safety during movement. The first such goods train left Bhanga near Badarpur at 1100 hrs to reach Churaibari in Tripura 44 km away.

It can be expected that with the commencement of regular fuel dispatch service by train, Tripura will get relief from the acute crisis of petrol and gas crisis in the state.