Mumbai 15 June 2020 Brindhmani.com
Maharashtra: Western, Central Railways to resume selected services for essential staff in Mumbai
Starting from today, the Western Railway and Central Railway will resume their selected suburban services in Mumbai region for essential staff as identified by the state government. Around 1.25 lakh essential staff including 50,000 on western railway are expected to travel by these trains. The Western Railway will run 73 pairs of its 12 car suburban services between Churchgate & Dahanu Road and Churchgate & Virar while the Central Railway will run 200 services between Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus & Kasara/Karjat and Panvel.
The Chief PROs of western and central railways through a joint media informed that these special suburban services will not be for general passengers/public and will be strictly for essential staff as identified by Maharashtra government. Entry will be given at stations strictly through ID cards. The RPF, GRP and State Police will be deployed at various stations. To allow adequate social distancing in the coaches, unlike its seating capacity to accommodate about 1,200 persons, only about 700 would be allowed per train.
The State government has been advised to stagger the timings of its offices for workers coming from different areas to ensure there is no crowding at the stations and inside the trains.
Maharashtra: Western, Central Railways to resume selected services for essential staff in Mumbai
Starting from today, the Western Railway and Central Railway will resume their selected suburban services in Mumbai region for essential staff as identified by the state government. Around 1.25 lakh essential staff including 50,000 on western railway are expected to travel by these trains. The Western Railway will run 73 pairs of its 12 car suburban services between Churchgate & Dahanu Road and Churchgate & Virar while the Central Railway will run 200 services between Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus & Kasara/Karjat and Panvel.
The Chief PROs of western and central railways through a joint media informed that these special suburban services will not be for general passengers/public and will be strictly for essential staff as identified by Maharashtra government. Entry will be given at stations strictly through ID cards. The RPF, GRP and State Police will be deployed at various stations. To allow adequate social distancing in the coaches, unlike its seating capacity to accommodate about 1,200 persons, only about 700 would be allowed per train.
The State government has been advised to stagger the timings of its offices for workers coming from different areas to ensure there is no crowding at the stations and inside the trains.
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They are making mumbai like new York in this hard time they resume train what's the need .They are making mumbai as aarthik rajdhani but mumbai is towards arthi rajdhani
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