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NEW DELHI: indian railways plan to restart gradually Passenger train operations of May 12.
Initially, 15 pairs of trains will run, the railway ministry 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.
Thereafter, Indian Railways will begin offering more special services on new routes, based on available coaches, after reserving 20,000 coaches for COVID-19 service centers and reserving an adequate number of coaches to allow operation of up to 300 trains every day as Shramik Special for stranded migrants. .
The reservation to book on these trains will start at 4 pm on May 11 (Monday) and will be available only at IRCTC website. Ticket reservation counters at railway stations will remain closed and no counter tickets (including platform tickets) will be issued.
“Only passengers with confirmed valid tickets will be able to enter the railway stations. Passengers will be required to cover their faces and undergo an exit check-up and only asymptomatic passengers will be allowed to board the train. In due course, more details will be issued, including the train schedule, ”the railways said.
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