End of Metro e-passes for lean hours, Sundays

Kolkata metro is limping back to the old normal days from neo normal due to the COVID pandemic. In an initiative to provide more ease to the commuters, the metro authorities informed that no more e-passes will be required on Sundays. Women, kids below 15 years, and the elderly are already exempted from e-passes.

Starting Monday, the digital passes will be needed only from 8.30am-11am and from 5pm-8pm. 

Metro Railway will also add 12 services by increasing peak-hour frequency from Monday, taking the total number of trains to 216. The first signs of the old normal were visible this week on the city’s transport lifeline as commuters could access the 24 stations of the north-south Metro from 7am to 8.30am and after 8pm without e-passes. The carrier also inched towards its pre-pandemic timings, starting at 7am instead of 8am. The last trains left the terminal Kavi Subhas and Dum Dum stations at 9.30pm instead of 9pm. This way, 14 more services were added to the 190 available till last week.

Before Covid, the first and last trains left the terminal stations at 6.45am and 9.55pm respectively.