{"id":321378,"date":"2020-03-22T13:17:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T13:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321378"},"modified":"2020-03-22T13:19:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T13:19:15","slug":"indian-railways-cancels-all-train-services-till-march-31-in-wake-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indian-railways-cancels-all-train-services-till-march-31-in-wake-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Railways cancels all train services till March 31 in wake of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-302091 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ganga-kaveri-train.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"587\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/ganga-kaveri-train.jpg 587w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/ganga-kaveri-train-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/ganga-kaveri-train-534x462.jpg 534w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/ganga-kaveri-train-486x420.jpg 486w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/>Indian Railways has cancelled all the passenger trains till March 31 to curb the spread of coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIn continuation of the measures taken in the wake of COVID-19, it has been decided that all passenger train services on Indian Railways including Premium trains, Mail\/Express trains, Passenger trains, Suburban Trains, Kolkata Metro Rail, Konkan Railway etc shall be cancelled till 31 March, the Railway Ministry said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cTo ensure the essential supplies in various parts of the country, movement of goods trains will continue,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Trains which had already commenced their journey, prior\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0to 4:00 am of March 22., will run up to their destinations.\u00a0Adequate arrangements shall be made for the passengers, who have commenced their journey during the travel and at their destinations, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">To make it more convenient for passengers, full refund for all cancelled trains may be taken till June 21. Adequate arrangements shall be made to facilitate hassle-free refund to passengers affected by train cancellations, it added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railways has cancelled all the passenger trains till March 31 to curb the spread of coronavirus. \u201cIn continuation of the measures taken in the wake of COVID-19, it has been decided that all passenger train services on Indian Railways including Premium trains, Mail\/Express trains, Passenger trains, Suburban Trains, Kolkata Metro Rail, Konkan Railway etc [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":302091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12470,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321381,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321378\/revisions\/321381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}