A man in South 24-Parganas’ Champahati used to cycle 30km to Thakurpukur for the past few months before taking a bus to the heart of Kolkata for his daily income.
On Monday, he boarded a train to Sealdah from Champahati station. The train was so crowded that he barely got a place to stand. But the man was not complaining.
On the first working day after the resumption of local trains, hundreds of thousands of people from suburbs crammed into suburban trains headed for Howrah and Sealdah in the morning and went back home in the evening.
