Lockdown: Day before Railways resumes services, states tell PM Modi to cease train, flight travel
4 years, 8 months ago

Lockdown: Day before Railways resumes services, states tell PM Modi to cease train, flight travel

India Today  

Several states have expressed their reservations about the resumption of passengers trains and flights amid the coronavirus lockdown. Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao said that since metros like Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Chennai are all Red Zones and the worst-hit in the country, trains from these cities might further spread Covid-19 and cause a spike in the number of cases. As the positive cases in Chennai are showing an increasing trend, don't permit train services up to May 31, in my state," Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami told PM Modi. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the Kerala government also wanted non-stop trains from Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Kolkatta, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru to bring back its people stranded due to the lockdown. Questioning the Modi government, she said, "When Government of India has opened almost everything including the opening of land borders, starting trains and opening airports, then what is the point in continuing with further lockdown?"

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Mumbai Local Train Services to be Opened for General Public from Feb 1. Check Timings Here
3 years, 11 months ago

Mumbai Local Train Services to be Opened for General Public from Feb 1. Check Timings Here

News 18  

Suburban train services in Mumbai will resume to full service from Monday, February 1, according to an announcement made by the Maharashtra government on Friday. According to the state government’s announcement on Friday, passengers can travel on the trains till 7 am from the start of the first local train. Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had recently chaired a meeting to …

PM Narendra Modi charts route to recovery for India
4 years, 8 months ago

PM Narendra Modi charts route to recovery for India

Live Mint  

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Consensus, not confusion: on resumption of rail services
4 years, 8 months ago

Consensus, not confusion: on resumption of rail services

The Hindu  

The Centre’s move to run 15 pairs of trains between New Delhi and major cities will serve as a trial for further relaxation of lockdown travel restrictions. Many States have severely restricted the arrival of domestic travellers, but their attempts at regulating entry by road through passes issued online have been overwhelmed, and the pass system is becoming dysfunctional; quarantine …

Resume local train services in Mumbai for essential services staff: Uddhav to PM
4 years, 8 months ago

Resume local train services in Mumbai for essential services staff: Uddhav to PM

India TV News  

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to allow the resumption of local train services in Mumbai for essential services staff. Uddhav said that any action on lockdown must be taken cautiously while referring to the second wave of infections in China's Wuhan. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that economic activities in several parts …

Coronavirus: Extend lockdown with resumption of industrial activities, CMs advise PM Modi
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus: Extend lockdown with resumption of industrial activities, CMs advise PM Modi

India Today  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a video-conference that lasted for nearly six hours on Monday, interacted with chief ministers of all states/UTs to discuss efforts to contain the novel coronavirus outbreak and relaxation of the nationwide lockdown that has been in place since March 25. Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said that he is in favour of extending the lockdown …

Select passenger trains should be run to take migrant workers home, former Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi
4 years, 8 months ago

Select passenger trains should be run to take migrant workers home, former Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi

The Hindu  

Select passenger trains should be run to take migrant workers home, former Railway minister and Trinamool Congress’s Rajya Sabha MP Dinesh Trivedi said in an interview to The Hindu. ‘Develop app’ Along the lines of the Arogya App being promoted by Prime Minister Modi, the government could have developed a ‘Mazdoor Suvidha App’ for information on the running of trains, …

Amit Shah dials Uddhav Thackeray after Bandra protest sets off political firestorm
4 years, 9 months ago

Amit Shah dials Uddhav Thackeray after Bandra protest sets off political firestorm

Hindustan Times  

Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday dialled Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray after hundreds of migrant workers in Mumbai turned up at the Bandra West railway station, demanding that railways start trains to take them home. Home Minister Amit Shah told Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray that gathering of people such as the one seen in Mumbai’s Bandra weaken India’s fight …

Lockdown Extended: Train services suspended till May 3, Indian Railways offer full refund
4 years, 9 months ago

Lockdown Extended: Train services suspended till May 3, Indian Railways offer full refund

India TV News  

The Indian Railways on Tuesday said full refund would be provided to its online customers for trains cancelled up to May 3, while those who have booked at the counters can take refund till July 31. The railways on Tuesday extended the suspension of all its passenger trains after Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended nationwide lockdown till May 3 in …

Trains and flights remain suspended till May 3 as lockdown extended
4 years, 9 months ago

Trains and flights remain suspended till May 3 as lockdown extended

Op India  

All trains and domestic as well as international flights will remain suspended till May 3 as the nationwide lockdown continues amidst Chinese coronavirus outbreak. On April 14, the Ministry of Railways informed that all premium, Suburban Express, and passenger trains of the Indian Railways will remain non-operational until May 3, 2020. All passenger train services on Indian Railways including Premium …

India may have a decentralised lockdown strategy ahead
4 years, 9 months ago

India may have a decentralised lockdown strategy ahead

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Hinting at a decentralised strategy ahead, Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed India’s lockdown playbook with state chief ministers on Saturday that may involve dividing areas into green, orange and red zones. With the chief ministers of Kerala, West Bengal, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Manipur and Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir’s governor making a case for the extension …

Will lockdown be extended? PM Modi to decide today after talking to CMs
4 years, 9 months ago

Will lockdown be extended? PM Modi to decide today after talking to CMs

Op India  

At 11 AM on Saturday, the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has started his interaction with the Chief Ministers of all States through a video link and discuss whether or not the 21-day nationwide lockdown imposed in the country on March 24, in the wake of Wuhan Coronavirus outbreak, should be extended. The meeting between PM Modi and the …

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