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New Delhi: Indian Railways will gradually restart passenger train operations starting May 12, initially with 15 pairs of trains, the national carrier said Sunday.
These trains will run as special trains from the New Delhi station connecting Dibrugarh, Agartala, Howrah, Patna, Bilaspur, Ranchi, Bhubaneswar, Secunderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram, Madgaon, Central Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Jammu Tawi.
Representative image. AP
All passenger train services were suspended due to a blockade announced on March 25.
After the resumption of these 15 services, the railways will start offering more special services on new routes, depending on the coaches available after reserving 20,000 coaches for the COVID-19 service centers and reserving an adequate number of coaches to allow operating up to 300 trains daily as a “Shramik Special” for stranded migrants.
The reservation to book on these trains will start at 4 pm on May 11 and will be available only on the IRCTC website (https://www.irctc.co.in/).
Ticket reservation counters at railway stations will remain closed and no counter tickets (including platform tickets) will be issued, he said.
Only passengers with confirmed valid tickets will be able to enter the railway stations. Passengers will be required to wear a face cover and undergo an exit check-out and only asymptomatic passengers will be allowed to board the trains.
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