Indian Railways will now provide disposable bedding kits to passengers at the station. However, passengers will have to loose pockets for this.
Passengers traveling by train no longer need to carry blankets and sheets from their home. Indian Railways will now provide disposable bedding kits to passengers at the station. However, passengers will have to loose pockets for this. Northern Railway and Northeast Railway have started preparing to sell disposable blankets and sheets at stations. Please tell that the bedrolls and curtains were removed from air-conditioned bogies to prevent corona varius infection. When special trains started, passengers had to carry blankets and sheets from home, now you can buy it at railway station.
The counter will be installed at the railway station for disposable bed kits. This will be done through tender. Passengers will be able to buy blankets or sheets according to their counter at the counter. Passengers will also get a sanitizer and mask along with a bedding kit. Passengers will dispose of it at the end of the journey. If not used then you can also take it home.
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What will happen in the bedding kit?
A bedding kit will contain a blanket, a bedsheet and a pillow. It will not have to be submitted back to the Railways. These kits can be purchased from counters started by private firm.
Bedding Kit Price
You will have to spend 250 rupees to buy a full set of bed sheet, blanket, pillow and towel. At the same time, 50 rupees will have to be paid only on taking the sheet. 100 rupees will have to be paid only on taking the blanket. The cost of taking a pillow with a sheet will come to Rs 100, while taking a sheet with a blanket will pay 200 rupees.
Separate arrangements have also been made for sanitization at many railway stations. In this, you can get the bag sanitized for 10 rupees. Apart from this, you can also get it packing and the charge for packing it is Rs 50 per bag. In this, your bag will be packed with plastic.
