In May 2016, Martin Kriegner, Head of Lafarge Holcim - India Operations and member of the Board of Directors for Ambuja Cements inaugurated the augmented Sankrail Grinding Unit in Howrah, West Bengal.

The train carried 5,265 tonnes of clinker, an intermediate product for cement manufacturing, loaded on 58 wagons on the 56-km new stretch between Durgawati and Sasaram, the bastion of late Dalit leader Babu Jagjivan Ram.