Doodh Duronto Particular, launched through the lockdown period from Renigunta to H Nizamuddin to offer milk to New Delhi, has so considerably transported 3 crore litres.
Transportation of milk to New Delhi plays an important function in balancing the milk offer. Thinking of its relevance, the South Central Railway has been jogging Doodh Duronto as a special milk prepare. The prepare is operate on par with very best of the Mail convey trains and the distance involving Renigunta and H Nizamuddin (2,three hundred km) is included inside 34 several hours.
The Doodh Duronto special, which was launched on March 26 to run every single other day, has been improved to operate each day from July fifteen.
Doodh Duronto specials ordinarily operate with 6 milk tankers, each possessing a potential of forty,000 litres. So considerably, close to 126 excursions of Doodh Duronto special trains have been operated, resulting in 751 milk tankers duly transporting 3 crore litres.
The milk is sourced by a unit of Countrywide Dairy Progress Board (NDDB) from extra than three,000 pooling factors spread across 13,000 villages in and close to the Chittoor district.
Further, the standard motion of the special prepare connecting Renigunta with the Countrywide Capital by way of Kacheguda has observed increasing patronage from parcel shoppers for motion of commodities.
Apart from transportation of milk, close to 56 parcel-vans were connected to these trains from Renigunta and transported crucial commodities and fruits this kind of as China clay, difficult parcels, mangoes, musk melons etcetera, to en route stations like Delhi, Bhopal, Nagpur and Jhansi and also to non-en route stations this kind of as Jodhpur, Jaipur, Rourkela, Ambala.
In addition, standard loading was performed at the Kacheguda station. A whole of 191 Parcel vans were loaded and carried close to four,039 tonnes of products. These products are transported to Nizamuddin, Bhopal, Jhansi and also to non-en route stations like Tata Nagar, Rourkela, Gorakhpur, Jaipur, Jodhpur etcetera.