Chennai, Oct 23 (UNI) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi

K Palaniswami on Friday urged Railways Minister Piyush

Goyal to direct Southern Railway to resume Electric Multiple

Unit (EMU) and suburban train services in and around Chennai.

The EMU suburban train services were stopped in March last

week following the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic and the

subsequent lockdown.

In a Demi-Official letter to Mr Goyal, the Chief Minister said

resuming EMU and suburban train services would greatly

help the public and facilitate quick revival of the economy.

He said the Southern Railway has resumed operations of a

number of Inter-State and Intra-State trains in Tamil Nadu

now.

'Similarly, the State Government has permitted public

transport, including Metro rail in Chennai in order to

revive the economic activities', he added.

The State Government has already made a request on September

two to resume EMU and suburban trains in and around Chennai

for general public, Mr Palaniswami said and urged Mr Goyal to

give instructions to Southern Railway to resume EMU and suburban

trains in and around Chennai, by duly adopting Standard Operating

Procedures (SOP) for Covid-19.

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