Siliguri (West Bengal), Mar 17 (ANI): Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas, today flagged off a goodwill rail rake consignment carrying high speed diesel (Gasoil) from Siliguri Marketing Terminal of Numaligarh Refineries Ltd (NRL) to Parbatipur storage depot of Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) in Bangladesh. From Siliguri, the 42 wagons (each with a capacity of 64 KL) rail consignment will travel over 516 kms (253 km in India and 263 km in Bangladesh) on the existing railway line via Rangapani, Singabad, Rohanpur to Parbatipur, where It will be received by Nasrul Hamid, Minister of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, Government of Bangladesh and Harsh Vardhan Shringla, High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh on March 19. During the above flagging off event, S S Ahluwalia, Lok Sabha MP from the Darjeeling constituency, senior officials from the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Ministry of External Affairs, Railways and Customs Department, State and District Administration and Numaligarh Refinery Ltd. were present.
