New Delhi (NVI): Indian Railways has cancelled all tickets booked for travel in regular mail, express, passenger and suburban trains on or before June 30. There will be a full refund for cancelled tickets that were booked before lockdown was imposed.
However, the Shramik special trains for migrants and IRCTC special trains which started operations on May 12 will continue operations, the Railways said in a statement today.
All non-essential trains, including regular passenger services, have been suspended since March 22, three days before the start of the coronavirus lockdown. The Railways had stopped bookings for all regular trains, with the extension of the lockdown to May 17.
After the lockdown started on March 25, only goods trains and freight services were allowed to transport essential services across the country.
In another announcement yesterday, Railways said that it will allow limited waiting lists in IRCTC special trains from May 22, to tackle passenger rush for these trains. It said that more such trains will be operated soon.
On Sunday, the Railways had announced plans to restart passenger trains in a phased manner. Initially, 15 trains (to and from Delhi) will undertake 30 journeys to ferry passengers across the country.
Before that, Railways started running the ‘Sharamik-Special’ trains ferry the migrant workers stranded at various places in the country from May 1, after the Centre had taken a decision in this regard.
