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200 more trains to operate from June 1, online bookings start tomorrow
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 20 (ANI): Indian Railways on Wednesday released a list of 200 trains which will be operated from June 1. The online booking starts from May 21 at 10 am on the website of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC).
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Railways operationalises its most powerful 12,000 HP made in India locomot
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 20 (ANI): The first 12,000 HP made in India locomotive, manufactured by Madhepura Electric Loco Factory in Bihar, has been put into operation by Indian Railways from Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction.
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Shramik Special trains to now run without needing permission from receivin
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India]], May 20 (ANI): The Shramik Special trains, being run to enable the return of migrant workers to their native places, will not need permission from the receiving states, according to Indian Railways official on Wednesday.
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Migrants desperate to return home, forced to stand in long queues under sc
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 20 (ANI): South Delhi's Lajpat Nagar wore a different look on Wednesday with hundreds of homebound migrant labourers queuing up since morning to get their screening done before being taken to the New Delhi railways station from where they are scheduled to board a Sh
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204 Shramik Special trains ran on May 19
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 20 (ANI): The Indian Railways has excelled on its own promise of running Shramik Special trains by running 204 of them in a single day, said Railways Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday.
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Railways to run 200 non-AC trains daily from June 1, says Goyal
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday announced that Indian Railways will start 200 non-AC trains daily from June 1 in addition to Shramik Special trains.
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Over 21 lakh passengers reach home in 1,595 'Shramik Special' trains so fa
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): More than 21 lakh passengers have reached their native places in 1,595 "Shramik Special" trains which have been operationalized so far from various states across the country, the government said on Tuesday.
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MHA issues revised SOP on movement of stranded migrant workers
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Tuesday issued a revised Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on the movement of stranded workers by trains during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown.
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Home Secretary writes to all States to take steps to 'mitigate the distres
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla on Tuesday wrote to Chief Secretaries of all states to take steps to 'mitigate the distress of migrant workers', suggesting a number of measures to be implemented including operation of more special trains by proactive coor
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`800 Shramik special trains approved for UP, West Bengal has given nod to
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 18 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh government has given approval to nearly 800 Shramik special trains for migrants labourers while West Bengal government has given nod to only 19 trains so far, Railway Ministry sources said, noting that "states blocking trains" was harming mig
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Write to Railways for special train between Indore-Kolkata to ferry Bengal
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], May 18 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan wrote to his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee, requesting her to urge the Ministry of Railways for a Shramik special train between Indore to Kolkata, to enable the return of migrant w
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Trains can only run after agreement between 2 States, which is causing del
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], May 17 (ANI): Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Sunday said that trains can run only after the agreement between two States, which is causing delays, and added that if Railways had run trains from all States end to end, the migrants would not have b
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