Silchar-Lumding broad gauge rail line

Q.  Silchar-Lumding broad gauge rail line was recently inaugurated. What is zonal headquarter for Lumding?
- Published on 24 Nov 15

a. Guwahati
b. Gorakhpur
c. Kolkata
d. Hajipur

ANSWER: Guwahati
 
- Lumding comes under North Frontier Railway zone
- Movement of foodgrains to Mizoram, Tripura, south Assam and Manipur takes place through the Barak valley.
- Silchar is the main city of the valley. The railway line is broad gauge from Assam's main city of Guwahati up to Lumding (in southern Assam).
- The rail line brings Assam's underdeveloped but strategically important Barak Valley on the broad gauge map.

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