With a view to reducing transport costs as well as pressure on the road, the west zone of Bangladesh railway on Tuesday launched a 鈥榩ecial agro-products train on the Khulna-Dhaka route.
Chief commercial manager of the zone Sujit Kumar Biswas inaugurated operation of the train in the morning.
The train departed Khulna railway station at 10:15am and was scheduled to reach Dhaka at 10:45pm with stoppages at 15 stations, including Jashore, Jhenidah, Kushtia and Ishwardi.
Sujit Kumar Biswas said that the government had taken initiatives to run the special train from the country鈥檚 northern and southern regions to the capital for three days in a week to control skyrocketing prices of agro-products.
He said that farmers and traders would be able to transport agro-products safely through refreezing bogies with low cost and less-time.
鈥楥onsisting of seven luggage vans, the train will have the capacity of carrying 120 tonnes of agro-products,鈥� he said, adding, 鈥楾oday鈥檚 [Tuesday] train left Khulna station with 640 kilograms of agro-goods.鈥�
鈥楢part from agro-products, the special train carries frozen fish, meat and milk. Traders have to pay only Tk 1.47 for carrying a kilogram of goods from Khulna to Dhaka through the special train,鈥� he added.
The special train will leave Khulna railway station for Dhaka鈥檚 Kamalapur station on Tuesday, freedom fighter Sirajul Islam station in Panchagarh on Thursday and Rahanpur station on Saturday with agro and other products.