AGARTALA/GUWAHATI: With floods ravaging West Bengal and Bihar, train services between northeastern states and the rest of India remained cut off for the 11th day on Tuesday, affecting supply of essentials to the region, an official said on Tuesday.The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), which serves seven districts in West Bengal and five districts in north Bihar apart form seven northeastern states, is working on a war footing to restore railway services, said the official.NFR's chief public relations officer Pranav Jyoti Sharma said, "Floods in Assam , north Bengal and north Bihar have snapped railway links between northeast and the rest of the country since August 12."All trains between northeastern states and the rest of India pass through New Jalpaiguri station in north Bengal and Katihar station in Bihar. He said the railway networks were badly damaged in Kishanganj, Katihar and Araria districts of Bihar."As per the engineering estimate, full connectivity cannot be restored before August 28," he added.Another NFR official said due to cancellations of trains followed by cancellation of tickets, NFR had suffered a lost of over Rs 550 crore so far."Though it has not been estimated yet, but NFR would suffer another Rs 500-600 crore loss because of damages to railway assets including bridges, culverts, tracks and communication network," the official said on the condition of anonymity.Assam's food and civil supplies officials held a series of meetings with NFR to chalk out ways to transport foodgrains, essentials and other important goods.Tripura food, civil supplies and consumer affairs minister Bhanulal Saha said they were in touch with NFR to ferry goods to Tripura from other parts of the nation.

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