Indian Railway News: Trains stopped due to Corona epidemic are being run slowly but not all trains have returned to track yet.
Indian Railway News: Trains stopped due to Corona epidemic are being run slowly but not all trains have returned to track yet. The railways has denied that all trains will be run from April 1. The Railway Ministry has issued a tweet saying that no decision has been taken regarding this. Railways has said that gradually the number of trains is being increased and more than 65 percent of the trains are running on track at this time. In January 2021, more than 250 trains were run. Other trains will be started gradually. Railways said that as soon as a decision is taken regarding this, it will be informed.
There have been a series of reports in the media about resumption of full passenger train services from a given April date.
It is being reiterated again that no such date has been fixed for resumption of all passenger trains operations.https://t.co/9PWtVKMINs pic.twitter.com/cjXYagmnaq— Ministry of Railways (@RailMinIndia) February 13, 2021
The railways had stopped operating all trains in the national lockdown in March 2020 due to Corona epidemic last year. Commerce, Industry and Railways Minister Piyush Goyal said sometime back in the month of February that talks will be held with other stakeholders for starting normal train services. The Union Minister said that the Corona Vaccination Program is going on, in such a situation that there are necessary precessions and preventions regarding the Corona epidemic, there is still a need to continue.
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Soon decision on General, Shatabdi and Rajdhani trains
Railway spokesperson said in a conversation with Financial Express that no date has been set. When the train will run, a decision will be taken after talking to all the stakeholders. Under this, a decision will be taken to run all General, Shatabdi and Rajdhani trains.
Currently, 704 local trains are running on the Western Railway route of Mumbai, through which about 3.95 lakh passengers are traveling. 706 local trains are also running on the Central Railway route, due to which about 4.57 lakh passengers are traveling.
More than 83% of railway tickets booked through IRCTC
The number of passengers in trains is increasing. For this, the Indian Railway Tourism and Catering Corporation (IRCTC) has upgraded the user interface. Apart from this, IRCTC has added the feature of AutoPay to its payment gateway i-Pay, through which users are taking less time to book tickets. Apart from this, the refund time has also been reduced in case of Tatkal tickets being auto-canceled. IRCTC is one of the largest e-commerce websites in Asia-Pacific through which more than 83 percent of railway tickets are booked.
