SILCHAR/AGARTALA, Oct 28 (TIWN): PM Modi may inaugurate Lumding Silchar BG Train along with Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu after Kalipuja.PM also inaugurate Silchar RLY Division on the same day. If everything is ready only waiting for PM office to give PM schedule.

In another incident,on Wednesday irritated Passengers gheraoed the office of the area manager of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR)'s Badarpur subdivision. Hundreds of committee members kept area manager Navakishore Singh and other staff confined inside their office at Badarpur, 33 km from here, for more than three hours.

The agitators demanded that passenger train services on the 201-km Lumding-Silchar BG section begin immediately. They said the newly converted BG route had been commissioned on March 31 and goods trains were running along the sector. However, more than six months had passed and the authorities were yet to begin the service of passenger trains, much to the dismay of the people of this part of the region.They also alleged that there was a conspiracy against the region. "We will launch a bigger stir if passenger trains are not started immediately,".

Meanwhile, area manager Singh told the agitators that due to some technical reasons, passenger train services on this route had been delayed. However, with monsoon being over, services were expected to start soon.

On Wednesday, when the stir was going on in Badarpur station, a team of officials of Research Design and Standard Organization of the railways, along with NFR officials, conducted a speed trial from New Haflong to Silchar. A senior official said the report of the speed trial would be submitted to the authorities within seven days. The launch of passenger trains would depend upon the report, the sources said.