Indian Railways

According to the news report, sources in the Indian Railways confirmed the development that the Indian Railways is planning to resume services post the 21-day suspension after nationwide-lockdown was announced. The news reports also made claims that railway officials, including TTE, guards, safety personnel and others have been notified to prepare and return on the services from April 15.

Certain media reports on Thursday claimed that Indian Railways has resumed reservation services on April 15 for trains departing after the aforementioned dates.

The lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will end on April 14, and on the positive note the Indian Railways has started accepting ticket bookings from April 15 for its passenger trains.

Indian Railways has transformed its some of the coaches into isolation wards to keep Covid-19 patients if required by the state authorities. For this, the middle berth has been removed on one side and all three berths have been removed from the other side to increase the cabin space.

Kanyakumari-bound Vivek Express, the country's longest-running passenger train, chugged off from platform number 1 of the Dibrugarh railway station in Assam on the night of March 22 (Saturday). India was set to observe the Janta curfew the next day, and by the time it reached its destination in Kanyakumari on Wednesday, India had come to a complete halt and lockdown state.

Indian Railways has suspended its operations in India to combat Covid-19 virus spread in India and while the trains are standing ideal, it has been learned that the authorities are planning to convert the coaches into quarantine facilities to help state governments in containing the spread of novel coronavirus infection.

India is on stage 2 of the coronavirus spread which means people with international travel history and their contacts have been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). But, some reports suggested that people were risking the life of other by slipping out from the home quarantine and using the public transport.

In the wake of expanding coronavirus in India, Indian Railways has suspended its passenger train services till March 31.

Delhi Metro train services have been suspended after India registered a sudden spike in the number of coronavirus cases on the Janta Curfew day. The total number of positive cases in India rose to 341 with two new deaths one in Mumbai and another in Bihar.

The Indian Railways on Sunday announced that all passenger trains across the country will remain suspended till March 31 extending its initial order of cancelling trains only on March 22 for the Janta Curfew.