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News Entry# 405285
Apr 18 2020 (20:12) Select passenger trains should be run to take migrant workers home, former Railway minister and Trinamool Congress’s Rajya Sabha MP Dinesh Trivedi (www.thehindu.com)
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A country, he said, is judged by the way it treats its poor. “When the government arranged special planes to go to China, to Russia, to...
No such thing is possible. You can't compare flights with trains. Flights/airports have a lot more security. With trains, you have to forget terms such as limited occupancy and point-to-point services when talking about stranded migrant workers. If such trains are allowed to run, there will be stampedes all along the routes. People stranded en route (and about 100 km around the routes) will flock to tracks and stop these trains to go to their native places. Mind you, these trains will already be super crowded at their super crowded originating stations. This is all too dangerous. Much more dangerous than hunger and COVID-19.
Starting trains for passengers should be the last phase of re-opening the economy.
Starting trains for passengers should be the last phase of re-opening the economy.
Air India started domestic flights bookings and will start running from 4th May 2020.
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