KISAN SPECIAL PARCEL TRAIN

About:

• The train will transport material between Maharashtra's Devlali and Bihar's Danapur Railway station. It will be covering a distance of 1,519 kilometres in around 32 hours.
  
  
• The Kisan Rail will carry fruits and vegetables and will make stoppages at several stations and pick-up and deliver them. This will help in bringing perishable agricultural products like vegetables, fruits to the market in a short period of time.
  
  
• The Kisan Rail train with frozen containers is expected to build a seamless national cold supply chain for perishables, inclusive of fish, meat and milk.
  
  
• Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced to start 'Kisan Rail' in the current year's Budget, for providing a seamless supply chain of perishable produce.