These 24 coaches Shramik special trains, which have a capacity of 72 seats, is now reduced to 54 due to social distancing norms with the middle seat not being allotted to any passenger

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Earlier, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi attacked the central government for charging migrant labourers returning home for their train travel amid coronavirus lockdown

Coronavirus lockdown 3.0: Shramik Special trains are ferrying thousands of stranded migrant workers across the country. BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said that Centre is funding 85% of the fare, while states are funding 15%

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This is the first special train to arrive in Uttar Pradesh with stranded migrant workers. The special train started from Nashik on Saturday morning and reached Lucknow via Jhansi and Kanpur

Coronavirus lockdown extension 3.0: Around 10 Shramik Special trains were operated on Saturday to Jharkhand, UP, and Bihar from Rajashtan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh

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India has been under lockdown since March 25 to curb the spread of coronavirus. All commercial passenger flights have been suspended during the lockdown period

The labourers, who belong to eastern UP's Basti district, about 260 km from the state capital Lucknow, have been quarantined at a college. The quarantine centre is being sanitised

Railways Ministry said that these trains will run in a point-to-point manner at the request of the concerned state governments and according to the standard protocol

Freight and parcel trains shall continue to operate as they were before the extension of lockdown

Many states, including Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Bihar, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Telangana, had requested for special trains to ferry migrant workers back home

Coronavirus lockdown: Passengers will be screened by the departure states before onboarding. Once the passengers are found asymptomatic, only then will they be allowed to board the trains

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Not all is well with the country's special economic zones. More than a quarter of the country's exports still come from them, but SEZs are grappling with a sharp slowdown in growth.