Indian Railways resumes general class passenger services; details here

On Monday, Indian Railways announced the resumption of general class passenger services. These services were suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic. During the covid pandemic, the national transporter had been running fully reserved ‘special trains’ in order to prevent crowding of passengers in trains so as to contain the disease spread. Even the coaches of the general second class, which are mostly used by passengers on short distance journeys and from economically backward sections, were turned into reserved coaches. Indian Railways said that in train services that are already resumed with regular train numbers, accommodation in second class will be earmarked reserved or unreserved as per applicability during the pre-Covid period, according to a PTI report.

Besides, second class accommodation of special trains that are presently running as holiday special train services will also be earmarked and reserved or unreserved as per railway policy. A railway spokesperson was quoted in the report saying that general coaches in regular trains, shall be earmarked as reserved/unreserved as these were prevailing during the pre-covid pandemic period.