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Seven more Shramik trains scheduled for today

Ludhiana: As local administration demanded more Shramik trains to different districts of Bihar and Madhya Pradesh to ferry the rest of the stuck the migrant labourers, railway authorities have decided to run seven more special trains from city railway station on Saturday.

Railway authorities have already issued the schedule for all seven trains.

The trains will carry around 1,600 passengers each. The local railway officials have started making preparations for the passengers with the help of railway protection force, who have tightened security cover at the station premises to ensure that no one enters from any back doors.

The trains are departing to Katni (halts at Gwaliar and Bina), Barkakhana (halts at Dhanbad and Daltonganj), Katihar (halts at Purnea, Gonda and Begusarai), Ara/Bhojpur (halts at Patna, Hardoi, Lucknow and Buxar), Aurangabad (halts at Gaya, Hardoi, Lucknow, Sultanpur and Bhabua), Darbhanga (halts at Madhubani, Bareilly, Gorakhpur, Muzaffarpur and Smastipur) and Khagaria (halts at Saharsa, Etwah, DDU, Chapra and Hajipur).

Senior divisional commercial manager (DCM) of Firozepur Division, Vivek Sharma, said, “District administration will have to ensure that the passengers reach the city station. Local ticket checking staff will seat them according to standard protocols and it will be mandatory for every passenger to wear face cover. Meals and drinking water will be provided to passengers at originating station.”

Meanwhile, a large number of migrant labourers had gathered outside Guru Nanak Dev stadium to register themselves for trains. Ram Manohar, who had just registered to go back to Bihar, said, “For the last two days, I have been coming to Guru Nanak Dev stadium, only today I manage to register. I have lost my job as a driver of a business man after the enforcement of lockdown. I have been working for him for 10 years.”

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