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Railways to use 60% of isolation coaches in Shramik Special trains

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NEW DELHI : The Indian Railways which converted 5,231 coaches into isolation wards for covid-19 patients has now decided to take back 60 per cent of such coaches to be utilised in the Shramik Special trains for the transportation of the stranded migrant workers.

The Railway Board wrote to all zonal railways on May 21 regarding this after the demands for the Shramik Special trains shot up in the last one week.

The national transporter is now operating over 200 Shramik Special trains everyday. The railways initially decided to convert 5,000 coaches for over 80,000 patients and then it also decided to convert 20,000 coaches for over 3.16 lakh covid patients.

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