{"id":86801,"date":"2020-05-11T20:33:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T15:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=86801"},"modified":"2020-08-24T17:12:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T11:42:02","slug":"rail-ministry-modifies-guidelines-sharmik-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/rail-ministry-modifies-guidelines-sharmik-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail Ministry modifies guidelines for Sharmik trains."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <strong>Rail Ministry<\/strong> has modified its guidelines for <strong>Sharmik special trains<\/strong>, which ferry <strong>migrants labourers<\/strong> from various states during the <strong>Covid lockdown<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry has also decided to increase the capacity of these special trains from existing 1200 to more than 1700.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the revised guidelines state that the capacity of these trains should be equal to the number of sleeper births.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <strong>Railway zones<\/strong> have also been asked to provide three stoppages in the destinationstate other than the final stop, at the request of the state governments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ministry has also appealed to all states especially those who have been allowed very few trains, to give approvals liberally.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The issue was discussed in <strong>Home Secretary&#8217;s<\/strong> meeting with thye states on Sunday and he has written to them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Home Minister Amit Shah<\/strong> has appealed to <strong>West bengal<\/strong> in particular which has a low number.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his letter , <strong>Home Ministry<\/strong> has said that all the sattes should cooperate with Railways in running more <strong>Sharmik SPECIAL trains<\/strong> for <strong>migrant workers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He laso asked the states and <strong>union territories<\/strong> to ensure that <strong>migrant workers<\/strong> do not resort to walking on roads, railway tracks and use available trains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rail Ministry has modified its guidelines for Sharmik special trains, which ferry migrants labourers from various states during the Covid lockdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":86805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[92435,1703,83498,1067,95920,92816,95918,95919,174],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2020\/05\/11203139\/Shramik-speacial-trains_migrants.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86801"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=86801"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=86801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->