📋 Tender Overview
Scope : Doubling of the Lumding-Furkating Section (140 km) in Assam
The Railway Board sanctioned doubling of the the Lumding-Furkating section (140 km) of NF Railway at an current estimated cost of Rs 2,123.7 crore. The project was approved by the Union cabinet recently.
Double laning of the 140-km-long Lumding-Furkating route will give a major boost to passenger and freight movement to Nagaland and in eastern part of Assam.
With the Lumding-Furkating double line, all their rail movement in double line will happen all the way upto the border of Tinsukia division. In the Lumding-Furkating section comes Dimapur, a major station in Nagaland. So, it will get a higher number of passengers and freight trains.
