After being in the shed for six months on account of the Covid-19 pandemic, local trains resumed service in West Bengal on Sunday. Suburban and local trains rolled out as per a new timetable issued by the Eastern Railways.
While extending the prevailing Covid restrictions in the state till November 30, the state government, in its latest order on containing the pandemic, cleared the reopening of schools for classes 9-12 and resumption of local train services. However, the government made it binding on the railway authorities to run suburban and local trains at 50 per cent seating capacity.
