Indian Railways: In view of the danger of corona virus, today Indian Railways has made a big announcement.
Accordingly, all passenger trains have been canceled from the night of Saturday 21 March to 10 PM on Sunday, 22 March. This step has been taken to protect the general public from corona infection.
Passenger trains are usually crowded. All coaches are packed. In such an infection can take a very deadly form.
According to the railway order, passenger trains running between the night of 21/22 March to 10 pm on 22 March will not run. However, passenger trains running at 7 pm during the day will be allowed to arrive at their destinations.
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Railways have also provided that suburban train services in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Secunderabad will be run only on Sunday, March 22, to meet the required travel requirement, but will be less frequent.
Due to Corona, the rail traffic in the country will be stopped from Saturday night to Sunday night. In view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for observance of ‘Janata curfew’, the Ministry of Railways has decided to completely stop rail traffic in the country between 12 pm and 10 pm Sunday.
During this time, the trains already running will be stopped at the way stations and passengers will be kept in the waiting rooms. Not only this, the operation of local trains in metros like Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Delhi will also be very limited.
This is the first time that such a large number of rail operations have been stopped. According to the directive issued by the Ministry of Railways to all the general managers, during the said period of March 21-22, no zone will run any train from it.
This means that 2400 passenger trains and 1300 mail / express trains will run daily across the country. Bookings made for these trains will be deemed canceled and their entire money will be refunded to the passengers.
