New Delhi: Demand for Shramik Special trains, which were introduced to move migrant workers to their home states, has lately been diminishing, Railway Board chairman Vinod Kumar Yadav said on Friday. “It appears that demand for these trains is declining from the originating state.
137 trains were flagged yesterday (Thursday) and 172 the day before (Wednesday). Demand for trains has been going down in the last two days," Yadav said, addressing the media.
This is substantially less than the number of trains that were being run last week. On an average, 250 trains were started their journey last week, as many as 279 trains on 20 May.