After Union Railways Minister Piyush Goyal made a statement that Jharkhand government is not giving nod for enough trains to ferry migrant trains.
Delhi Transport Co-operation (DTC) bus shuttle services started for passengers who are arriving from train in New Delhi.
Union Railways Minister Piyush Goyal spoke on 'shramik special' trains.
The Union Railways Minister Piyush Goyal spoke on economic relief package.
Passengers who are disallowed from travelling on trains because of symptoms associated with the novel coronavirus will receive full refund for their tickets, the railways has said.
The East Coast Railway (ECoR) on Monday issued an advisory for passengers to travel on a special train from Bhubaneswar on May 13, asking them to carry their own food and linen and arrive at the city station at least 90 minutes before departure for health screening.
The Indian Railways has thrown open bookings for at least 15 special passenger trains that will start running on May 12. The official website, irctc.co.in, faced a two-hour delay and began operating at 6 PM instead of the previously scheduled time of 4 PM on Monday.
IRCTC Special Train Booking: In a big relief for passengers, Indian Railways to begin special trains services across the country from tomorrow, five days before the nation-wide lockdown ends.
The South Eastern Railway has decided to reduce the speed of all goods and special trains to 40 km per hour in its Kharagpur-Bhadkar section till Monday morning owing to the movement of migrant workers at different places along the railway tracks, an official said in Kolkata on Sunday.
Over 1180 people, mainly migrant labourers will depart from Amritsar Railway Station on May 10. Thermal screening of passengers is being done before they boarded a 'Shramik Special' train.
At least 30 companies, including foreign and domestic firms participated in the pre-bid meeting for the redevelopment of the New Delhi railway station via video conferencing.
Around 500 modern heavy duty Track Maintenance Machines along with track, signal and Overhead Equipment (OHE) maintainers have worked regularly for 10,749 machine days to complete overdue track maintenance of 12,270 km plain track, the national transporter said in a statement on Saturday.
Hyderabad Police on May 04 had a brief moment of law and order situation when around 1000 migrant workers started approaching Secunderabad railway station in a bid to return to their home states amid the coronavirus lockdown.
From 25 March to 17 April 2020, more than 1500 rakes and more than 4.2 million tonnes of foodgrains were loaded by train services of Indian Railways as compared to 2.31 million tonnes last year in the same period.
Despite its passenger services suspended till May 3 amid the country-wide lockdown, the Indian Railwyas will be running two special trains this week from Bangalore to ferry army personnel for their border duty, military sources said on Thursday.
Railways is set to cancel around 39 lakh tickets booked for travel between April 15 and May 3 due to extension of the nationwide lockdown and suspension of passenger trains till then in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, sources told PTI.
As many as 313 coaches in the South Western Railway (SWR) Zone have been converted into quarantine centres comprising 2,400 isolation wards to combat noval coronavirus, Union Minister of State Suresh Angadi has said.
To safeguard its staff and their families against the deadly coronavirus, North Central Railway is manufacturing protective masks and sanitiser at its workshops and distributing them free of cost.
Railways has converted 2,500 coaches into isolation wards, achieving half of its target of delivering 5000 such coaches in the first phase as part of its efforts to supplement the government's measures to fight coronavirus.
The Indian Railways, which had announced the closure of all passenger, mail and express train services from March 24 to April 14 in a bid to stop the chain of transmission of novel coronavirus (COVID-19), has started preparation to resume all its services from April 15, sources said on Saturday.
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