Rail shipments: 450 tonnes to Delhi, 840 tonnes to Chennai.
Road transport: approximately 1,000 tonnes to various cities.
Retail price targeted at about 35 rupees per kilogram.
Direct farmer payments total around 210 crore rupees.
Supply expanded to 19 cities including Delhi, Jaipur, Kolkata, and Chennai.
Two special train consignments, carrying 450 and 840 metric tonnes, reached Delhi and Chennai respectively.
Around 1,000 metric tonnes are also being moved by trucks to other consumption centres.
These actions aim to keep onion prices stable at roughly 35 Indian rupees per kilogram and support farmers with direct payments of about 210 crore rupees.
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