Indian Railways continued the transportation of essential items like medical supplies, medical equipment, food, etc in small parcel sizes is going to be very important during the lockdown in the wake of Covid-19.
Indian Railways has made railway parcel vans available for quick mass transportation by E-commerce entities and other customers including State governments.
Railways have decided to run time-tabled Parcel Special trains on select routes, to ensure uninterrupted supply of essential items.
The parcel service trains have loaded 20,474 tonnes of consignments and earned around ₹7.54 crore in revenue, the railways said in a statement on Wednesday.
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