Kolkata/UNI: Kolkata Metro Railway today clarified that it cannot resume services from early next month onwards as requested by the West Bengal Government under the present Covid-19 situation and asked the state officials to take it up with the Railway Board in this respect.
“ We want the Metro railway to resume services from July 1 by following all the precautionary and sanitisation norms and only with a 100 per cent seating occupancy policy, "
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee told a media meet at Nabanna late last week.
Following the request a meeting was today held at Nabanna, chaired by State Home Secretary Alapan Bandhyopadhay, in which three top Metro Railway officials took part where they clarified that under the present Covid-19 situation Metro Railway services cannot be resumed in July.
They also suggested to the State Government officials to have talk with the Railway Board.
They said as per Railway Board directive the services have been suspended up to August 12, 2020.
The Metro Kolkata officials cited logistic problems as well maintenance of social distancing under pandemic situation as the underground ferries lakh of people daily across this metropolis.
Besides the State Home Secretary, Transport Secretary Pravath Misra, city Police Commissioner Anuj Sharma and Barrackpore Police Commissionrate chief Manoj Verma
took part in the meeting on behalf of the State Government, while Kolkata Metro was represented by General Manager Manoj Joshi and Chief Operating Manager Satyaki Nath.
Kolkata Metro is the lifeline of the city's mode of transport, the fastest and the cheapest covering some 27.22 km from the farthest south to extreme north across the city's main hub.
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