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Tribune News Service
Ambala, June 27
The Ambala Railway Division of Northern Railway, in collaboration with MGH Group, for the first time loaded a special parcel train for Benapole in Bangladesh with cotton yarn at Ambala Cantonment railway station on Sunday.
The parcel train, consisting of 20 parcel vans, was flagged off by Senior Divisional Commercial Manager, Freight, Vivek Sharma.
âEarlier, merchants in and around Punjab and Haryana were transporting these commodities by road to Bangladesh in small quantities and that was costing them too much.
âDuring the lockdown, they could not move this commodity by road. Then, the railway staff and officials approached the consignors and explained the facilities to transport it by rail. Accordingly, they have moved the cotton yarn by rail in bulk through goods train.
Farmers on Thursday sat on railway tracks at many places in Punjab and Haryana as part of the four-hour rail roko protest against the Centre s three farm laws, with officials saying trains were halted at stations as a precautionary measure. Normal movement of trains on various rail routes was disrupted as farmers squatted on tracks. The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella body of farmer unions which is spearheading the protest, had last week announced the nationwide rail blockade to seek the repeal of the three farm laws. The farmers sat on tracks as part of the rail roko agitation from 12 noon to 4 pm.