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Railway Board’s nod sought to run more special trains | Patna News

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PATNA: With sharp decline in Covid cases and improvement in the overall situation in Bihar, East Central Railway (ECR) has sought approval from the Railway Board to restore more special passenger trains in order to cope with huge rush of passengers.
ECR chief public relations officer (CPRO) Rajesh Kumar said railways is committed to running adequate number of special passenger trains by strictly following Covid-appropriate behaviour. “Railways has been put on mission mode to carry passengers safely to their respective destinations from different places falling under ECR’s five divisions,” he said.
Despite many problems faced by the frontline railway staff during the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, railways is running at least 279 pairs of special mail and express trains from different stations falling under the jurisdiction of the ECR. Besides, 74 pairs of local special passenger trains are running daily from the ECR jurisdiction.
“During the pre-Covid period, railways was running at least 307 pairs of mail and express trains while 190 pairs of local passenger trains were running on different sections under the ECR jurisdiction spread over Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh,” he said, adding railways intends to run more special passenger trains soon after getting approval from the Board.
About eight lakh passengers were travelling daily from different places under the ECR jurisdiction, yielding Rs9 crore as revenue per day for the ECR during pre-Covid days . “Though railways has not assessed a tentative loss to revenue per day due to cancellation of passenger trains in the Covid period, however, it intends to restore services of more local passenger trains like MEMUs and DEMUs to cope with passengers’ rush,” the CPRO said, adding railways is still issuing reserved coach tickets to passengers only to maintain Covid protocol during journey.
Meanwhile, senior divisional commercial manager of Samastipur, Saraswati Chandra, said the division added a feather to its cap by standing first in all 67 railway divisions across the country in maintaining 100 per cent punctuality of passenger trains for three consecutive days on July 18, 19 and 20.

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