Guwahati Diary | Railway staff honoured for averting disaster

The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) honoured three railway employees with cash rewards and certificates for their alertness while on duty that helped avert a potential disaster. The employees are loco pilot Jitendra Kumar, senior assistant loco pilot Sailendra Kumar Keshari and train manager Bholaram Das. On October 23 night, their goods train was passing between Kokrajhar and Salakati stations in the Bodoland Territorial Region when the crew sensed a sudden heavy jerk. Demonstrating presence of mind, they stopped the train, alerted control authorities, and discovered damage to the tracks in a suspected blast.