'Contact-free' commuters among the 24 thousand plus were just 637, they have downloaded metro rail app and travelled through scanning QR code in the stations.
Chennai:
Resuming after five months the metro trains in the city have registered 24,354 passengers.
Following, Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri Chennai restarted metro rail services from September 7.
Token distribution have been scaled down to curb the spread of contagion. But, the limited number of tokens distributed were properly sanitised.
'Contact-free' commuters among the 24 thousand plus were just 637, they have downloaded metro rail app and travelled through scanning QR code in the stations.
18,769 passengers carried smart card and the rest carried a one-time passenger ticket.
Timings were rescheduled from morning 7 to night 9. Metro services were restarted in a graded manner.