Overview

• Train services on the Lumding–Badarpur hill section have been halted since Monday after a landslide at KM-51/1-2 between Mupa and Dihakho stations blocked the single track.
• Northeast Frontier Railway engineers are using excavators and slope-stabilization teams to remove boulders and secure the embankment amid ongoing monsoon showers.
• Help desks at Guwahati, Lumding, Silchar, Badarpur and Agartala stations are assisting hundreds of passengers stranded by the service suspension.
• Since June 23, monsoon-triggered landslides have cut the sole rail link to Barak Valley three times, repeatedly isolating southern Assam, Tripura, Manipur and Mizoram.
• The detailed project report for a 160-km lower-altitude Lanka–Silchar alignment has been completed and is pending final government sign-off expected within six months.