MUMBAI: Prime minister Narendra Modi will flag off the 100th Kisan Rail over video conferencing on Monday. The train will run from Sangola railway station in Maharashtra till Shalimar in West Bengal on Monday afternoon.
The first Kisan Rail which started in August 2020 as a weekly train, gained popularity and is now running as three days in a week.
Kisan Rail has become a game changer in ensuring a fast transportation of agriculture produce across the nation. It provides seamless supply chain of perishable produce. Indian Railways introduced first “Kisan Rail” from Devlali to Danapur on August 7.
This train further extended upto Muzaffarpur and also increased frequency from weekly to 3 days in a week as a result of good response from the farmers taking advantage to send their produce to the distant places of Northern India. A Link Kisan Rail from Sangola in Maharashtra followed soon.