Led by Shri Arun Arora ,GM Eastern Railway and Janab Seikh Sakil Uddin Ahmed,Jt.Secy,Ministry of Railways, Bangladesh and Janab Shah Shufi Nur Mohammad,DRM Pakshey Division,Bangladesh Railway, High Power Meeting Held between Eastern Railway and Bangladesh Railway in Kolkata on 12th of December, 2022.
Indian Railways has been relentlessly trying to equip and embolden Bangladesh Railway with the state-of-the-art rolling stocks as a part of continuous endeavour towards modernization of neighbour Railway, since its very inception. In this direction, a high-power meeting was held between Eastern Railway & delegates from Bangladesh Railway at Eastern Railway Headquarters, Fairlie Place today (12.12.2022) in connection with transfer of 20 broad gauge diesel locomotives from India to Bangladesh on grant basis. Shri Arun Arora, General Manager, Eastern Railway, Dr. Jaideep Gupta, Additional General Manager, Principal Heads of Departments and Divisional Railway Managers of Howrah & Sealdah participated in this meeting. The high-power delegation from Bangladesh was led by Mr. Seikh Sakil Uddin Ahmed, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Railways, Bangladesh and Mr. Shah Shufi Nur Mohammad, DRM/Pakshey Division, Bangladesh Railway. The delegates from Bangladesh also visited Andal, Barddhaman & Howrah loco shed in the last four days.
In his welcome address, Shri Arun Arora, General Manager/Eastern Railway conveyed Indian Railways’ willingness to extend all kinds of technical & operational assistance to Bangladesh Railway in improving movement of freight and coaching trains between India & Bangladesh. by Mr. Seikh Sakil Uddin Ahmed, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Railways, Bangladesh conveyed his gratitude regarding hospitality & cooperation extended by Eastern Railway with the assurance of setting of mechanism at appropriate level to sort out operational issues for the sake of flow of traffic between both the neighbouring countries.
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