The railways till Sunday refunded ₹1.69 crore to 32,100 passengers due to cancellation of 567 trains in the Ferozepur division in the wake of the farmer unions’ ‘Rail Roko’ protest at several locations in Punjab.
The farmers under the banner of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) have been staging sit-ins on rail tracks in Amritsar, Jalandhar, Tanda, Tarn Taran and Ferozepur for over a week over their demand for a complete waiver of loans and outstanding electricity bills besides allotment of plots by the state government.
An average 70 trains were cancelled daily from December 20 to 26, leaving the passengers in the lurch, it is learnt.
