Students Can Travel In Mumbai Local Trains
Students under the age of 18 years and not eligible for vaccination can travel on Mumbai local trains from October 20.
Schools and colleges in the state of Maharashtra have been closed for about 1 and half years. Now with the decrease in the covid-19 infections, physical classes have commenced for the students from class 5 to 12 from 4th October. Schools and Colleges in Mumbai too have been permitted to conduct offline classes from 20th October. The local trains in Mumbai were closed for the general public from April as the second wave of the pandemic had started. After 4 months of being closed to the general public, it was started only for fully vaccinated passengers in August. That time, the students below 18 years were not eligible to travel in local trains. On 8th October the state government (Maharashtra) announced that students under the age of 18 years and not eligible for vaccination can travel on Mumbai local trains from October 20.
The decision will be a relief for college and school students as they will have an additional convenience of local trains to attend physical classes. According to reports, students will only need to produce Aadhaar and school ID cards to railway officials for the verification process. Railway officials said that the WR currently has nearly 2.5 million passengers travelling by local trains daily and the CR currently sees 3 million daily passengers.
