Indian Railways has cancelled all regular train tickets booked for travel till June 30 barring the 15 special trains and migrant trains. The Indian Railways has announced that the trains have been cancelled and full refunds will be issued to all passengers who had booked tickets for travel on these special trains.
Shramik Special trains are taking migrant labourersfrom different states to their home states while the special trains are runningon 15 routes to ferry stranded Indians across the country.
On May 12, Indian Railways had started 15 specialtrains in the ongoing lockdown with an aim to gradually resume the trainservices in India that are a lifeline for transport and communication in thecountry.
The tickets of regular trains, which are beingcancelled, were booked during the lockdown period when the railways wereallowing bookings for journeys in June.
Regular mail, express, passenger and suburban servicesof the railways had been suspended from March 25 due to thecoronavirus-triggered lockdown.
On the first day of bookings on IRCTC, the IndianRailways had booked tickets for 80,000 passengers, earning a staggering amountof Rs 16 crore.
