NEW DELHI: The Indian Railways is getting requests for reducing frequency of trains and cancel stoppages and hence has not introduced any new train services, Railway Board Chairman VK Yadav said on Friday.
“We are in constant touch with states on a real time basis. Depending on the Covid situation, we are getting request for cancellation of few trains, reducing the frequency of trains and sometime cancelling the stoppage of the trains in the state. This is the reason why we have been unable to announce more train services,” he said.
Tamil Nadu government requested to cancel seven trains from June 29 to July 15. “Yesterday (Thursday), they again wrote that they want to further cancel those trains ,”the Railway Board Chairman said, adding that similar requests came from Bengal and Odisha.