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NEW DELHI: Indian Railways has deployed more than 70 special trains to transport nearly 80,000 stranded migrant workers, students, and tourists in the past five days.
Rail authorities said 55 special trains had started or completed the one-way trip as of Monday and nearly 30 more trains were scheduled for Tuesday, mainly from stations like Bengaluru, Surat, Sabarmati, Jalandhar, Kota and Ernakulam. Each train carries around 1,000 passengers.
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They added that such trains will continue to operate until states submit their claim to the railways. “We can continue to run more than 500 of these trains,” said a source.
Meanwhile, authorities said that special trains originating from or heading to Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Gujarat, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh now face no problem in regards to who pays for the passenger ticket.
“While states like UP, Rajasthan, MP and Chhattisgarh have said that they will pay the tickets for all the stranded outgoing and incoming migrants, Jharkhand and Bihar have said that they will pay for the incoming passengers,” said an official.
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Rail authorities said 55 special trains had started or completed the one-way trip as of Monday and nearly 30 more trains were scheduled for Tuesday, mainly from stations like Bengaluru, Surat, Sabarmati, Jalandhar, Kota and Ernakulam. Each train carries around 1,000 passengers.
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They added that such trains will continue to operate until states submit their claim to the railways. “We can continue to run more than 500 of these trains,” said a source.
Meanwhile, authorities said that special trains originating from or heading to Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Gujarat, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh now face no problem in regards to who pays for the passenger ticket.
“While states like UP, Rajasthan, MP and Chhattisgarh have said that they will pay the tickets for all the stranded outgoing and incoming migrants, Jharkhand and Bihar have said that they will pay for the incoming passengers,” said an official.
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He added that with Andhra Pradesh agreeing to pay for outgoing passenger tickets, the number of such states has increased. Gujarat and Telangana are the other two states that pay passengers leaving their states.
The official said this largely addresses the majority of passengers traveling on special trains, as these are the majority of states that send or receive passengers.
“There could be some peculiar case if a train goes from a state that is not ready to pay the ticket, and the receiving state also refuses to pay from its kitty. We hope that the problem will be resolved even in such cases, ”said another official.
