AGARTALA, January 20 (TIWN): If everything goes as per the plan, Agartala would be brought in the country’s Broad Gauge (BG) rail network by early next year with BG conversion work making good progress. The laying and constructing of Broad Gauge (BG) railway tracks of Mega Block for Dharmanagar to Agartala will start from October 2015 and will complete in March 2016.

Speaking to the reporters at civil secretariat Tripura Transport Secretary Samarjit Bhowmik said that the laying and constructing of Broad Gauge (BG) railway tracks of Mega Block for Dharmanagar to Agartala will start from October 2015 and is expected to complete within March 2016.

He further said that the commissioning of laying and constructing of Broad Gauge (BG) railway tracks of Mega Block for Agartala to Udaipur will start from March 2016. The commissioning of laying and constructing of Broad Gauge (BG) railway tracks of Mega Block for Kumarghat to Agartala will start from March 2016 and the commissioning of laying and constructing of Broad Gauge (BG) railway tracks of Mega Block for Agartala to Sabroom will start from March 2018, Samarjit Bhowmik added.

According to a NFR source, conversion of 108 kilometer railway tracks of Mega Block has been already completed out of 228 kilometers. The BG conversion of the Mega Block that started on October 1st 2014 is on right track for its timely completion, the source mentioned.

The source further added that NFR has deployed more than 3000 workers to complete the conversion work at earliest.