New Delhi: Indian Railways on Wednesday said that all passengers’ trains, barring the Shramik Special and 30 special trains, will remain suspended till further notice. India Railways cancelled all tickets booked to travel on or before June 30, the railway ministry said.
All tickets booked for these cancelled trains will be fully refunded, the national transporter added. Railways had suspended passenger train services since March 22 to mitigate the virus spread in the country. Indian Railways, “gradually” resumed passenger train services this week by introducing 30 special trains connecting Delhi and other major cities in India. These trains will run from New Delhi station to Dibrugarh, Agartala, Howrah, Patna, Bilaspur, Ranchi, Bhubaneswar, Secunderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram, Madgaon, Mumbai Central, Ahmedabad and Jammu Tawi.
These trains have only air-conditioned coaches. The fares will be similar to Rajdhani Express fares, a railway ministry official said.
Passengers bought over 45,000 tickets on Monday when the Indian Railways started taking bookings for the special trains. All tickets for Mumbai Central-New Delhi special train till May 18 were sold out within few minutes.
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