The Railways Ministry has announced, on Sunday, May 10, to resume passenger train services from Tuesday, May 12. An official statement from the Ministry read, “Indian Railways plans to gradually restart passenger train operations from May 12, initially with 15 pairs of trains (30 return journeys),” The passenger train services will resume from Delhi to 15 destinations from May 12. The booking for the service will begin from 4pm on Monday, May 11.
Indian Railways plans to gradually restart passenger train operations from 12th May, 2020, initially with 15 pairs of trains
These trains will be run as special trains from New Delhi Station connecting 15 important cities of the countryhttps://t.co/tOvEFT1C8Z pic.twitter.com/dvdxKaxshM
— Ministry of Railways (@RailMinIndia) May 10, 2020
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The 15 destinations where the passenger trains commencing from New Delhi station will run to include Agartala, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Bilaspur, Chennai, Dibrugarh, Howrah, Jammu Tawi, Madgaon, Mumbai Central, Patna, Ranchi, Secunderabad & Thiruvananthapuram.
The interested citizens will have to hit to the Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) website (www.irctc.co.in) and place their bookings online.
The Ministry has cleared that bookings for the train travelling will not be available at the counter, and that those interested to use the passenger train services will have to book the tickets online only. The statement from MHA cleared that only those with confirmed tickets will be able to travel in the trains, while waitlisted as well as Reservation Against Cancellation (RAC) will be abolished temporarily.
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The Ministry further cleared that more trains will be made available for passenger train services after the train coaches reserved for COVID-19 cases and those reserved for ‘Shramik Special’ for stranded migrants are deployed in service.
Indian Railways has decided for the gradual resumption of passenger train services but existing Shramik special trains will continue to run as per current system on the request of the concerned state governments.#IndiaFightsCorona
— Ministry of Railways (@RailMinIndia) May 10, 2020
The statement from the Ministry also instructed passengers to avail their tickets online and those with valid tickets will only be allowed to enter the railway station. No booking of platform tickets will be allowed, neither online, nor at the counter.
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The statement also cleared that those asymptomatic COVID-19 patients will not be allowed to travel in the trains. It also mandated use of face masks and screening at the departure before entering the station premises.
