Metro train services resume in Bahadurgarh at 50% capacity

Ravinder Saini

Tribune News Service

Jhajjar, June 7

Metro train services with 50 per cent seating capacity resumed in Bahadurgarh town here today after 27 days but the passengers were inconvenienced in the morning hours limited number of passengers were allowed to enter the station at one time due to Covid protocols.

Many passengers got late in reaching their destination (Delhi) as there was a long queue outside the station and people had to wait for their turn due to the Covid protocols. A large number of people from Jhajjar and nearby districts catch metro trains from Bahadurgarh to go to various places in Delhi in connection with their jobs and business.

The metro services were suspended on May 10 in the wake of curfew in the national capital to check the spread of coronavirus hence the government job holders and others engaged in essential services in Delhi were compelled to take a longer route in their personnel vehicle to reach their destination due to the blockade on the Tikri border by protesting farmers.

This morning, a large number of passengers reached Brigadier Hoshiar Singh Metro station in Bahadurgarh, where they were made to line up by security personnel for the compliance of Covid protocols.

Rajesh, a passenger, said he was to go to Mandi House in Delhi by metro. “ I am already late. I have been standing in the queue for the past one hour and it will take at least half an hour more to enter the station,” he added.

Jeet Singh, another passenger, said the metro train was the best option to reach Rohini (Delhi) from Bahadurgarh in a situation when the Tikri border was blocked and the petrol prices were touching the sky but the restriction on the number of passengers had become a cause of inconvenience.

A security personnel deployed there said the passengers were stopped outside the metro station to comply with Covid protocols as it would be difficult to maintain social distance once they entered the station.

Sources at the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation said only half of the available trains were inducted into service today. 

People travel to Delhi for job, biz

A large number of people from Jhajjar and nearby districts catch metro trains from Bahadurgarh to go to various places in Delhi in connection with their jobs and business. The metro services were suspended on May 10 in the wake of curfew in Delhi.