A flash butt welding plant was inaugurated at New Bongaigaon by NK Prasad, General Manager of the Northeast Frontier Railway at Maligaon in Assam on 2 April 2019.
The plant has been constructed to convert free rails into long panels in order to achieve good quality of rail joints in the stationary plant which is being set up at New Bongaigaon yard.
The plant has adequate infrastructure facilities with modern mechanized loading/unloading of rail using motorised gantries.The plant also undertakes welding 10/20 rail panels with stacking area of 15,000 tonne, single rails at a time, and 22,000 tonne of 20 rail panels could be stacked.
These will be dispatched to different construction projects of the Northeast Frontier Railway of construction and open line as well as other neighbouring zonal railways on their demands.
The plant has been constructed in record time during FY19. The construction work of the plant was started on 14 July 2018 and completed at a cost of Rs 44 crore.