Mumbai Metro’s Ghatkopar-Versova line will restart from Monday
Mumbai:
Metro providers in Mumbai – shut for greater than six months due to the coronavirus lockdown – will reopen on Monday with the Ghatkopar-Versova Metro One line – which was the one practical line earlier than the nationwide lockdown in March – resuming operations.
SOPs (normal working protocols) for passengers, who can be subjected to thermal screening on entry to stations, will embrace social distancing – visuals from contained in the coaches present stickers that spotlight the place you’ll be able to sit or stand – and the usage of face masks always – whether or not in trains or on the platform.
Different SOPs will embrace limiting passengers on every four-coach prepare to 300 (in opposition to a most of 1,500), an emphasis on cashless transactions when buying tickets and sustaining a relentless temperature (between 25 and 27 levels Celsius) contained in the coaches.
As well as, solely 200 trains can be run between 8 am and eight.30 on daily basis; pre-Covid as many as 450 trains had been run on daily basis.
“We’ve allowed solely 300 folks to journey at one time to care for social distancing. As crowds enhance, issues will change. Additionally, as an alternative of giving tokens, folks will get paper tickets so danger of an infection is proscribed. We even have many services for on-line cost and folks can be inspired to make use of this,” Abhay Kumar Mishra, CEO of Mumbai Metro, stated.
Seats have been marked to make sure social distancing between Mumbai Metro passengers
The choice to restart metro providers within the metropolis was taken earlier this week, with the Uddhav Thackeray authorities hoping that this may ease stress on standard public transport mediums – like native buses – as Mumbai tries to return to regular amid the Covid pandemic.
Metro providers throughout India have restarted in phases following a inexperienced gentle from the centre final month. Delhi Metro – the most important community within the nation – started restricted operations on September 7 with round 7,500 passengers within the first shift.
Equally, metro providers in a number of different cities – together with Chennai, Bengaluru, Kochi, Hyderabad and Kolkata – have additionally begun operations following months of shutdown.
Maharashtra stays the state worst affected by the Covid pandemic. The state reported over 10,000 new instances up to now 24 hours, in accordance with well being ministry information this morning.
The excellent news, although, is that the energetic case load dropped by round 4,400 after greater than 14,000 recoveries had been recorded in the identical interval.
Total India has logged practically 75 lakh instances, of which 1.14 lakh are deaths. Nonetheless, the central authorities on Sunday said the country had “crossed the Covid peak”.