Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav told in an exclusive conversation with News18 that 95 percent of the express trains are back on track. Of these, 25 percent are still running in the special train category. In these, passengers have to pay 30 percent extra fare. Soon these special trains will be closed.
New Delhi. During the Corona crisis and even after that for a long time, Indian Railways ran special trains for the convenience of the passengers. At this time most of the Express and Mail trains are back on track. Of these, a quarter are still running in the category of special trains. Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav indicated that soon these special trains will be closed. Actually, passengers in special trains have to pay 30 percent more fare than normal trains.
’95 percent trains returned on track’
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said that in the Kovid Protocol, Railways had started running trains in special categories. Its purpose was to control the crowd in trains. At present, 95 percent mail express trains have returned on track. About 25 percent of these trains are running in the special category. Apart from this, in passenger trains, about 70 percent trains have been given the status of mail express. Passengers have to pay more fare to travel in these.
What will be the benefit to railway passengers?
Before the corona virus epidemic in the railways, about 1700 mail express trains used to run. Most of these trains have been restarted. At the same time, about 3500 passenger trains used to run before the Corona crisis. At present, only 1000 of these passenger trains are being run, while all the sub-urban trains of each zone have been started.
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav has indicated in a special conversation with News 18 that now the steps taken after Covid in the Railways will be withdrawn. This will be of great benefit to the railway passengers. They will have to pay less fare for traveling in normal trains. However, passengers will still have to follow the Covid protocol during the journey.
