Maligaon, June 11 -- Northeast Frontier Railway has turned the challenge of Lumding's rain shadow geography into an opportunity for sustainable development. Despite limited rainfall, this key railway town home to over 4,000 railway families and essential operations like train watering, platform cleaning, and DEMU rake maintenance has prioritized uninterrupted water supply through innovative and eco-friendly solutions.
In a landmark initiative to promote water sustainability, Shri Samir Lohani, Divisional Railway Manager (DRM), Lumding inaugurated a state-of-the-art Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) with a treatment capacity of 90,000 litres per day. The STP treats grey water generated from the colony approximately 2, 00,000 litres daily and rec...