Mumbai: ‘Onus on railways to ensure only fully vaccinated take trains’

MUMBAI: As the state government finally allowed daily train journeys from Sunday, stations witnessed a slight increase in the rush. Officials said the demand for single journey tickets was likely to go up from Monday.
In the directive to the railways to allow daily tickets, principal secretary Aseem Gupta from the State Disaster Management Authority said that from now on full vaccination would be the only mandatory condition for issuance of any kind of ticket for travel on local and passenger trains.
Gupta’s missive said it would be the responsibility of the railways to ensure only fully vaccinated people travelled on trains, irrespective of whether the traveller was from the essential or non-essential service sector.