Tripura seeks more food grains thru\\\' Ctg

Tripura has sought to move 35,000 MT food grains a month through the Chittagong-Asuganj route from August. Work on broad gauge conversion of an important section of the northeastern frontier railway that starts next month will make it difficult for Tripura to receive its monthly requirement of foodgrains by railways, officials said in Agartala, the capital of India’s north-eastern state. They said Bangladesh, which has already allowed 10,000 MT foodgrain transhipment through the Chittagong-Asuganj route is ‘actively considering’ Tripura’s request for more than tripling the quota until the railways finish the broad gauge conversion on the Lumding route, according to bdnews24.com.