Kolkata Metro: Special services will continue until 7 p.m. at 15-minute intervals, authorities said.
New Delhi:
The wheels of the Kolkata subway started rolling again with passengers on Sunday after nearly six months with special services for NEET examinees and their guardians.
Regular passenger services will begin Monday with social distancing measures and other safety protocols in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, a Metro official said.
NEET applicants, many accompanied by their tutors, queued in front of metro stations to reach their exam centers long before 10 a.m. when the first trains departed from both ends of the North-South line: Noapara and Kavi Subhash. .
Test takers and their guardians were allowed into the stations by showing admission cards to police personnel posted at the entrance doors.
Candidates and their guardians went through heat checks and sanitized their hands before purchasing paper tickets at the counters.
Special services will continue until 7 p.m. at 15-minute intervals, authorities said.
Regular passenger services on the North-South and East-West lines will begin on Monday.
Authorities said 110 trains will operate on the North-South line every day, except Sundays, when services will be closed due to sanitation of rakes and stations.
The East-West Metro will also resume services from September 14 between Sector V and Yuva Bharati Krirangan stations with 36 trains in each direction, they said.
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