In a written answer to a question posed by TMC MP Derek O’Brien on Friday, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal provided the statistics to the upper house of parliament.
There is no demand for Shramik Special trains from any state now, the Railways said Monday, but offered to run more if states request for them. At a press conference, railway spokespersons said no Shramik Special ran on Sunday and none is scheduled for Tuesday either.
A 19-year-old migrant woman, who was returning home in Odisha after being stuck in Telangana due to the lockdown, gave birth to a baby on a Shramik Special train on Friday, railway officials said.
At least seven deaths on-board migrant special trains were reported on Wednesday, officials said, putting the Railways in the dock over its handling of these non-AC trains.
A 50-year-old man died in Shramik Special train from Baliya district's Surat to Hazipur on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the dead body was recovered from UP's Baliya Railway Station last night. The deceased has been identified as Abhinav Kumar.
On her way to her home state Uttar Pradesh from here on a Shramik special train, a nine month pregnant woman suddenly developed labour pains and gave birth to a baby girl, aided by women travelling with her.
Migrants labourers panicked after a shramik special train in which they were travelling caught minor fire after some fault was detected in the break-binding system of the train.
The first Nagaland-bound Shramik Special train from Chennai with 1,477 stranded people has reached the Dimapur railway station, an official said.
A migrant woman hailing from Uttar Pradesh gave birth to a baby girl on board Shramik Special train.
Maharashtra Police on May 19 had a brief law and order situation when a huge crowd of migrant workers had gathered outside the Bandra railway station to board a special shramik train.
The Indian Railways has operated 1,300 'Shramik Special' trains since May 1, ferrying more than 17 lakh workers, it said on Sunday.
The first 'Shramik' special train from Ghaziabad left for Bihar's Muzaffarpur on Friday with 1,420 stranded migrant workers onboard, officials said. The special train with a total of 22 coaches left around 9 pm from Ghaziabad old railway station.
A 'Shramik special' train carrying around 1200 passengers departed from Gujarat's Surat on May 10 amid coronavirus lockdown. The passengers will reach Uttarakhand's Kathgodam on May 11.
The Indian Railways has operated 366 "Shramik Special" trains since May 1 and ferried home around four lakh migrants stranded in various parts of the country amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown, officials said.
A 'Shramik special' train carrying around 1200 people departed from Maharashtra's Aurangabad on May 07 amid coronavirus lockdown.
A second 'Shramik special' train carrying around 1200 labourers departed from Gujarat's Rajkot on May 06 amid coronavirus lockdown. The train will reach Uttar Pradesh's Ballia. A local NGO paid tickets of all the labourers.
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