The railways on Tuesday said the consent of the destination states is not required to operate Shramik Special trains, hours after the Home Ministry issued a standard operating procedure for the national transporter to run these trains to ferry migrants to their native places. "Consent of terminating state not necessary to run Shramik Special trains," railway spokesperson Rajesh Bajpai said.
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