Coronavirus live updates: All metro corridors across India to be operational by September 12

Metro rail corporations to keep close liaison with state police and local administration for regulating crowd outside station and to deal with contingencies.

Information, Education and Communication (IEC) campaign to be launched for passenger and staff through electronic/print/social media, poster, banner, hoarding, website etc.

Operation of Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) system as per the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) & Indian Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ISHRAE) guidelines. Intake of fresh air in air-conditioning system to be increased to the extent possible.

Passengers to be advised to travel with minimum luggage and avoid carrying metallic items for easy and quick scanning.

Adequate dwell time at stations to be provided to enable smooth boarding/deboarding ensuring social distancing. Metro rail corporations may also resort to skipping of stations to ensure proper social distancing.

Use of Smart Card and cashless/online transactions to be encouraged. Tokens and paper slips/ticket to be used with proper sanitization.

​Provision of sanitizers to be made at entry into the stations for use by passengers. Sanitization of all areas having human interface viz. equipment, train, working area, lift, escalators, handrail, AFC gate, toilets etc. needs to be done at regular intervals.

​Only asymptomatic persons to be allowed to travel after thermal screening at entry into the stations. Symptomatic persons should be advised to go to nearby Covid Care Centre/Hospital for testing/medical attention. Use of Aarogya Setu App to be encouraged.

Wearing of face mask to be mandatory for all passengers and staff. Metro rail corporations may make arrangements for supply of masks on payment basis to the persons arriving without mask.

​​In order to ensure social distancing, suitable markings at stations and inside trains to be done.

Stations/ entry-exit gates in containment zones to be closed.

Frequency of trains to be regulated to avoid passenger crowding at stations and in trains.

Daily hours of operations may be staggered initially, which needs to be increased gradually with resumption of full revenue service by 12th September, 2020.

As per MHA order No 40-3/2020-DM-I(A) dated 29.8.2020, metro services will resume from 7th September, 2020 in a graded manner. For this purpose, SOP guidelines have been prepared by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, which have been concurred by the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Hardeep S Puri, MoS, (I/C), Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has announced the SOP guidelines for metro operations in a media interaction today.

Metros having more than one line should open different lines staring from 7th September, 2020 onwards in a graded manner so that all corridors become operational by 12th September 2020.

All metro corridors in every Metro rail will be operational by September 12

Metro services will resume in graded manner, Hardeep Puri

641 new Covid-19 cases reported in Jammu and Kashmir today; 274 from Jammu division and 367 from Kashmir division. Total number of cases now at 38,864 including 8,053 active cases, 30,079 recoveries and 732 deaths: Govt of Jammu and Kashmir

Haryana: Health officials allegedly stopped & Covid-19 sample collection kits destroyed by villagers of Nakta, Fatehabad.

Police says, "After the death of a positive patient in the village, medical teams went to collect samples of other persons. But, villagers destroyed the kits."