{"id":323926,"date":"2020-06-15T03:31:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T03:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323926"},"modified":"2020-06-15T03:31:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T03:31:51","slug":"mumbai-local-trains-resume-services-for-essential-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mumbai-local-trains-resume-services-for-essential-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai local trains resume services for essential staff"},"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-323927 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/train.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"766\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/train.jpg 766w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/train-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/train-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/train-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/train-696x481.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/train-608x420.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/>The Western and Central Railway have decided to resume selected Mumbai suburban services over main line and harbour line from Monday. These special suburban services will only for &#8216;essential staff identified by the state government&#8217; not for general public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWestern Railway have decided to resume their selected suburban services over WR w.e.f. Monday, 15th June, 2020 with defined protocol &amp; SOP, only for movement of essential staff as identified by the State Government,\u201d Western Railway tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSelected suburban services resumed today mrng, over Western &amp; Central Railway for essential staff of State Government only. All Booking Offices Opened at all stopping stations. These special suburban services will not be available for general passengers\/public,\u201d Western Railway added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The trains will run from 5.30 am to 11.30 pm with interval of approximately 15 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It said approximately 1.25 lakh essential staff as identified by state government are expected to travel by these trains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In view of the social distancing guidelines, unlike its seating capacity to accommodate about 1200 persons, only 700 people will be allowed to board a train.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Railways, as well as the state government, will ensure multiple rounds of checking to ensure only essential staff as identified by the state government, should board these trains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Maharashtra is the worst affected state in the country with 1,04,568 COVID-19 cases and 3,830 deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western and Central Railway have decided to resume selected Mumbai suburban services over main line and harbour line from Monday. These special suburban services will only for &#8216;essential staff identified by the state government&#8217; not for general public. \u201cWestern Railway have decided to resume their selected suburban services over WR w.e.f. Monday, 15th June, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":323927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[1467,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323926"}],"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=323926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323928,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323926\/revisions\/323928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/323927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}