Train services between south Assam, Tripura, Manipur and Mizoram and the rest of the country via Guwahati have been suspended since last evening amid landslides impacting the railway track in the New Haflong-Jatinga Lampur section, an official from the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) said. 

Akashvani correspondent reports that NFR’s Chief Public Relations Officer Kapinjal Kishore Sharma said that on account of boulders along with land mass falling over the railway track in the New Haflong-Jatinga Lampur section, the train services in the Lumding-Badarpur hill section had to be suspended from the evening of June 23, to ensure the safety of railway passengers.

The NFR CPRO said that it was learnt that road repairing works were going on in that area, and as a result of the work, the slope on the downstream side between the road and the railway line bulged out, forcing the entire mass to move towards the railway track. As the condition of the location is critical and highly unsafe for the train to pass, rail traffic has been suspended between Lumding-New Haflong-Badarpur portions with immediate effect, resulting in cancellations and short termination of train services over that section.

The NFR has already written to the NHAI authority to undertake proper protective measures by engaging manpower and machinery so that no further damage to the vital railway track connecting states like Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and parts of Barak Valley in Assam happens. Kunal Shinde, Akashvani News, Agartala.