Team Herald
PANJIM: Special Train Shramik Express of Konkan Railway, carrying 1,290 stranded passengers, departed from Karmali to Haridwar in Uttarakhand at 8.15 pm, on Sunday.
The government through a press release informed that proper medical screening and other formalities of the passengers were carried out before they boarded the trains.
“Two teams were formed namely holding area and registration area, for the execution of carrying out the operation of departure of the migrants. Earlier, the list of passengers was sent to Nodal Officer from Uttarakhand. The passengers with valid ID proof and SMS were allowed to board the train after following registration process,” reads the press statement issued little before mid-night.
After the government allowed operation of Shramik special trains, for the purpose of repatriation of stranded people amid the coronavirus lockdown, this was the seventh Shramik Express train which departed from Goa.
A KTCL bus carrying 50 passengers left for Kerala and one bus carrying 20 passengers — 16 people from Pune and remaining four from Kolhapur — also left from Goa on Sunday evening.
A private bus which left Goa to bring people stranded in West Bengal – Assam, started its return journey to Goa with one passenger from Assam and four from West Bengal.
