The Indian Railways on Thursday cancelled all tickets for regular passenger trains, including mail, express and suburban services, for journeys booked up to June 30. These train tickets were boked when railway reservation was open before the pandemic. A full refund will be sent to the people whose tickets have been cancelled.

Indian Railways cancels all tickets booked to travel on or before June 30th, 2020. Refunds given to all tickets booked till 30th June 2020. All special trains and Shramik Special train to however ply as usual. pic.twitter.com/5Pgs09WB2t
— ANI (@ANI) May 14, 2020

This cancellation will have no effect on the Special 30 trains and Shramik trains that have been started by the government with revised rules to take migrants and stranded people home.

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The railways has earlier cancelled the tickets for the months of April and May with full refund to the passengers.

The “special” trains, on the other hand, have been started from New Delhi to connect cities in Assam, Bengal, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jammu, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Tripura.

As Railways, we want to give a safe passage to all workers who want to go home. We have already run about 700 trains so far. Capacity is to run 300 trains every day and Railways has geared up 1200 trains for this.

I am hoping that the State Governments can come to an agreement. pic.twitter.com/HfZ4GzFtev
— Piyush Goyal (@PiyushGoyal) May 14, 2020

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The Railways has also run 642 “shramik” special trains as of Wednesday.

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