25th Kisan Rail leaves Lingampet, Jagityal to New Delhi with 585 tonnes of mangoes

Hyderabad, May 24 (UNI) The 25th Kisan Rail on Monday started from Lingnampet Jagityal with a rake loaded with 585 tonnes of Mangoes to Adarsh Nagar in New Delhi.  The Jagityal area in Telangana is well known for cultivation of export quality mangoes.

Till now, during the mangoes season the traders, cargo aggregators and farmers were transporting these superior quality mangoes by Road to different parts of the country, which is expensive, time taking and prone to relatively more enorute damages and losses, a South Central Railway (SCR ) release here said.

Introduction of Kisan Rail concept by Indian Railways along with 50 per cent tariff concession provided by the Union Ministry of Food processing Industries under the scheme “Operation Greens -TOP to Total” was extensively publicised by the newly formed Business Development Unit (BDU) team of Secunderabad Division across all segments of freight customers including traders, cargo operators, bulk transporters and farmers in and around Jagityal region.

All these factors provided a path for initiating mango loading by Rail from Jagityal area. As a result, within a short span of 42 days, the 25th Kisan Rail from Lingampet Jagityal could be achieved transporting around 13,590 tonnes of load earning a revenue of Rs 5.50 crore notwithstanding the Covid-19 pandemic.

SCR General Manager Gajanan Mallya has expressed his happiness on loading of 25th Kisan Rail from Lingampet Jagityal to New Delhi. He complimented the efforts of Secunderabad Division Team for operation of Kisan Rail loaded with Mangoes from Lingampet Jagityal to Adarsh Nagar, New Delhi.

Mr Mallya advised the freight customers to utilise the Kisan Rail facility for transportation of their farming produces at concessional tariff.