Indian Railways is poised to fight against the Coronavirus pandemic by adopting various measures including movement of Time Tabled Parcel Express Trains for maintaining uninterrupted supply of essential commodities to every nook and corner of the country during crisis in the wake of Covid-19.
- As a part of commitment to the nation, South Eastern Railway has geared up its entire network to run Time Tabled Parcel Express Trains towards different destinations in the country.
- South Eastern Railway, during this national crisis, has already run 3558 trips of Time Tabled Parcel Express Trains carrying essential commodities viz., food items, groceries, medicines, medical equipments, fish, fruits, cotton goods, gunny bags, vegetables, onion, ginger, garlic and other daily need items to different parts of the country from 2nd April to 16th August, 2020.
- South Eastern Railway during the above period, has carried 67,971 tonnes of parcel traffic containing 26,13,356 number of packages to different places in the country.
- These Time Tabled Parcel Express Trains are running between Shalimar-Ranchi, Shalimar-Mumbai CSMT, Howrah-Secunderabad, Howrah-KSR Bengaluru, Shalimar-Porbandar and Tatanagar-Itwari.
- Apart from the above, Parcel trains running between KSR Bengaluru and Dimapur are also passing through SER jurisdiction.
- South Eastern Railway is also transporting parcel goods in 10 pairs of Special Trains which have been running in the path of existing Mail/Express Trains with effect from 1st June, 2020.
Source: South Eastern Railway-Press Release
