People are afraid to travel in trains for fear of Corona virus

Posted on 3rd Jun 2020 by rohit kumar

Following the instructions of the government, the railway has started many trains. But the statistics of the traveling passengers shows that there is not much trend in traveling travelers yet. People are still reluctant to travel on the train for fear of spreading the corona virus. On Tuesday, 5 trains stopped at the railway station of Kurukshetra. But in these five trains only 38 passengers sat while 58 passengers landed at the railway station of Kurukshetra from different trains. Yesterday, 2 trains were halted on Monday. Only 46 passengers landed from these two trains while only 6 passengers boarded both trains.

 

 

Giving information, GRP SHO Narendra Prasad said that out of the Jan Shatabdi Express arriving from Una to Delhi this morning, 3 passengers landed and 19 passengers boarded the train. After this, 13 passengers of the Paschim Express going from Delhi to Amritsar landed at the station and boarded a passenger train. At the same time, 12 passengers of the Sachkhand Express going from Nanded to Amritsar landed at the station, no passenger went in this train. Apart from this, 27 passengers descended from the Jan Shatabdi train running from New Delhi and 4 passengers boarded the train. The same 3 passengers descended from the Shaheed Express going to Jaynagar in Bihar and 14 passengers boarded it.

Similarly, fewer passengers traveled in buses as well. Only 12 passengers traveled in the mini bus run from here to Panchkula on Tuesday by Kurukshetra Roadways. Yesterday, 2 buses were plying for Yamunanagar and Panchkula. Only 10 to 10 passengers traveled in these buses.

 

 

GM Roadways Ashwani Dogra of Kurukshetra said that now the buses are also running buses on some local routes. Apart from this, the number of inter-district buses is also being increased. Along with this, online booking has started for inter-state buses from tonight. Buses will run on booking.

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