Special trains bring more natives, social distancing goes for a toss

Prayagraj: Continuing with efforts to bring back standard migrant labourers, students and pilgrims from various parts of the country, six Shramik Special trains arrived at various stations of Prayagraj division of North Central Railway (NCR), on Saturday. Among these, three special trains arrived at Prayagraj while one each at Kanpur Central, Fatehpur and Mirzapur stations.
All the three trains, which arrived at Prayagraj junction on Saturday, brought migrant labours and other standard passengers from Surat. The first of these train arrived at Allahabad Prayagraj junction at 12:15 noon while the second arrived at around 9:30pm and the last of these train arrived late night. Each of these trains brought around 1,600 passengers from Surat.
However, on Saturday the norm of social distancing of the passenger was totally absent. Passengers was seen sitting close to each other at the shelter shed located at city side of Prayagraj Junction. Beside sitting in close proximity to each other, the passengers were seen sitting next to each other in the buses, very much against the norms.
Public relation officer (PRO) of Prayagraj division, SK Gupta, while commenting on the issue said that the responsibility of the Railways is to drop the passengers up to the shelter sheds from where district administration takes over charge.