Bihar: Railways to cancel four trains from Saturday

PATNA: Amid an exponential rise in Covid-19 cases and poor occupancy rate of passengers, the railways will cancel four pairs of special trains originating from different stations under the East Central Railway (ECR) from Saturday.
“The Barauni-Lucknow special (05203/05204) will not run from Barauni from May 22 and Lucknow from May 23. The Muzaffarpur-Ahmedabad special (05269/05270) will also be cancelled from Muzaffarpur from May 27 and Ahmedabad from May 29 due to poor turnout as a result of a sudden spike in Covid-19 cases,” ECR’s chief public relations officer (CPRO) Rajesh Kumar told this newspaper on Wednesday.
He added, “Services of the Sonepur-Katihar (03367/03368) and the Sonepur-Chhapra (05245/05246) MEMUs will remain cancelled from May 22 till further orders.”
Negative RT-PCR reports mandatory:
At the request of the Maharashtra government, the railways has directed all passengers to carry copies of their negative RT-PCR reports with themselves while travelling from Bihar to the country’s financial and commercial hub.