At least 42 trains have been cancelled so far to allow for faster movement of coal carriages in the wake of a power crisis in various parts of the country, officials in the railway ministry said on Friday.
The cancellations are likely to cause inconvenience to people travelling to and from coal producing states such as Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand.
While the South East Central Railway (SECR) division that covers the coal producing regions has cancelled 34 passenger trains, the Northern Railways (NR), the division that receives coal for many power stations in the north, has cancelled eight.
