Tuesday, December 28,
NMDC stopped iron ore shipments from mines in Chhattisgarh after Maoists damaged rail tracks and an engine derailed, said an official at the country’s largest state-owned producer.
Iron ore transportation has been stopped since the early hours of Monday as tracks have been damaged by Maoists.
The damage to the tracks is some 25 kilometres from the Bailadila hills where NMDC has five mines, the official said.
An engine and six wagons of a train loaded with iron ore came off the rails, local police official Gaur Gopal said.
NMDC cut down transport of its iron ore to about 36,000 tonnes per day compared with normal quantities of about 56,000 tonnes recently as Maoists called for a shutdown from Dec. 2.
The railway stopped services in the night as a preventive move fearing attacks on its facilities.
Source: Money control
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