NE NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, MAY 9
A Sharmik special train left for Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh from the Coimbatore junction with 1,140 migrant workers stranded due to Covid-19 lockdown at 8.20 p.m. on Saturday, said a Southern Railway official.
The Shramik Special train departed from Coimbatore to Jaunpur (UP) at 20:20 hrs on 9-05-2020 carrying 1140 passengers registered and nominated by the Govt of Tamilnadu. Thermal screening of passengers done and social distancing ensured while boarding and on board. pic.twitter.com/ucWY2HSwax
— Southern Railway (@GMSRailway) May 9, 2020
According to the official, the migrants were earlier registered and nominated by the Tamil Nadu government.
Thermal screening of passengers was done before they boarded the train, and social distancing ensured on board.
Earlier two special trains carrying migrant workers and others left for Bihar’s Saharsa and Jharkhand’s Hatia from Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore and Katpadi respectively. According to the official, the train to Saharsa left Coimbatore with 1,140 passengers.
Similarly, the other train from Katpadi to Hatia carried patients and their caregivers who had come for treatment at the Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore, but got stranded after the nationwide lockdown was enforced in March. These passengers too were registered and nominated by the Tamil Nadu government.
On Wednesday night, a special train carrying 1,136 passengers had left Katpadi for Ranchi. The passengers – patients at the Christian Medical College and their attendants – were brought to the Katpadi railway junction in 16 buses by the Vellore district administration.
