Dimapur, March 27 (EMN): Northeast Frontier Railway, Maligaon through a press note stated that it launched a drive to make the zone free of scrap and achieved a sale value of INR 83.47 cr. which is one of the best achievements in recent years. During this financial year, 21,000 metric tons of engineering scrap, 45 locomotives, 96 coaches, 1100 metric tons of bridge girders along with 7900 metric tons of ferrous and 902 metric tons of non-ferrous of scrap generated from the two workshop at New Bongaigaon and Dibrugarh and three diesel shades at New Guwahati, Siliguri and Malda town were offered for sale.
It maybe be mentioned that the Ministry of Railways has laid much focus for cleanliness of the work area and clean work place environment at all places. To this end, Railway has generated a system for disposal of scrap through e- Auction in fair and transparent manner. Financial targets are fixed by Railway Board for every year. For this current year the target was INR 3000 cr. which was achieved nine days in advance of closure of financial year.
