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New Delhi : Ministry of Railways (MoR) in consultation with Ministry of Health & Family welfare (MoHFW) and Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has decided that train services on Indian Railways shall be further partially restored from June 1, 2020. Indian Railways will start operations of 200 daily passenger trains across the country. These trains shall run from June 1, 2020, and booking for all these trains commenced on May 21, 2020.
These special services shall be in addition to the existing Shramik special trains being run since May 1, 2020, and Special AC trains (30 trains) being run since May 12, 2020.
Online Booking of tickets for these trains is being done through IRCTC website or through Mobile App. The Railways has also allowed booking of reservation tickets through the reservation counters, Common Service Centers (CSCs), and Ticketing agents on May 21, 2020.
Booking of tickets for these trains started from May 21, 2020, and as on May 22, 2020, at 20:14 hours, all the 200 trains were available in system for booking and 6,52,644 online tickets were booked for these trains having 14,13,277 passengers, according to a PIB release.