Days after Indian Railways resumed passenger train services in the country in a "phased" manner with 15 pairs of trains from 12 May, 2020, the national transporter is now gearing up to run another 200 special trains from 1 June, 2020 in a move to let citizens travel to their hometowns amid the nationwide lockdown.
India is currently in the fourth phase of the ongoing lockdown which was imposed by the government on 25 March in order to combat the novel coronavirus outbreak in the country, which has affected more than one lakh citizens and killed over 3,500 people so far.
While the booking reservations of the 15 pairs of trains (30 trains in total) started from 11 May via online booking from either the IRCTC website or app, the railway