{"id":322401,"date":"2020-04-18T13:34:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T13:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322401"},"modified":"2020-04-18T13:34:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T13:34:25","slug":"railways-making-all-efforts-to-ensure-enough-availability-of-foodgrains-across-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/railways-making-all-efforts-to-ensure-enough-availability-of-foodgrains-across-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Railways making all efforts to ensure enough availability of foodgrains across country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-322311 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/goods-train.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"716\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/goods-train.jpg 716w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/goods-train-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/goods-train-696x378.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/>Indian Railways continues in its endeavour to ensure the availability of essential commodities like foodgrain through its freight services during the nationwide lockdown due to COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">In order to ensure that Kitchens of all Indian homes continue to run normally,\u00a0on 17th of April 2020, 83 rakes\/3601 wagons of foodgrains were loaded (One wagon contains 58-60 ton consignment). During the lockdown period from 25th March to 17th April 2020, more than 1500 rakes and more than 4.2 million tonnes of foodgrains were loaded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">These efforts have been made to ensure that farm products like foodgrains are picked up on time and also to ensure timely supply during the nationwide lockdown due to COVID-19. The loading, transportation and unloading of these essential commodities has been in progress in full swing during the lockdown period. Close association is being maintained with the Ministry of Agriculture for foodgrains loading.\u00a0It may be noted that CONCOR is also working with NAFED to ensure the transpiration \u00a0of pulses in a big way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Indian Railways has also identified\u00a065 routes for Parcel Special Trains since the start of the lockdown for perishable commodities including fruits, vegetables, milk and dairy products and seeds for agriculture purposes. Till 17th\u00a0April, 66 routes have been notified and timetabled trains are being run on these routes. Trains are being run even on those routes where demand is less so that no part of the country remains unconnected.\u00a0Trains have been given en-route stoppages at all feasible locations, so that maximum possible clearance of parcels may be done.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railways continues in its endeavour to ensure the availability of essential commodities like foodgrain through its freight services during the nationwide lockdown due to COVID-19. In order to ensure that Kitchens of all Indian homes continue to run normally,\u00a0on 17th of April 2020, 83 rakes\/3601 wagons of foodgrains were loaded (One wagon contains 58-60 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":322311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12470,12750,58,12809],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322402,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322401\/revisions\/322402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/322311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}