Pune: Help Desks Being Set Up At Railway Stations To Provide Local Train Passes For Vaccinated Travellers

Pune, 17th August 2021: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has formed two teams to set up help desks at the Pune and Shivajinagar railway stations. The teams will consist of 16 officials in total.

The two teams will set up help desks to provide special passes to vaccinated passengers. These passes can be used to purchase tickets and travel via the railways.

The help desks at both stations will be open from 7 am to 1 pm and from 1 pm to 7 pm.

The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) is also expected to set up two more help desks at Talegaon and Chinchwad stations.

Earlier, the municipal corporations had said that fully vaccinated passengers will be allowed to travel in local trains. However, they are yet to start the process.

After the help desks are set up, passengers can soon obtain the special passes from the help desks and travel via trains.

The Lonavla Municipal Council has decided to provide monthly passes to passengers who have had two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and want to travel by train from Lonavla.

The authorities have set up a desk to provide the special passes to passengers near the railway ticket house, informed Lonavla Mayor Surekha Jadhav. The mayor held a meeting with the municipal council office bearers and railway officials in this regard at the Lonavla Municipal Council office on Tuesday.

A team of four employees will be providing the special passes from 7 am to 10 am and from 4 pm to 7:30 pm. The passengers will need to get their vaccination certificate verified at the counter and then the special travel pass will be issued. The pass will be monthly and one day ticket will not be available, informed Station Master RP Singh.

PMC commissioner Vikram Kumar has confirmed distribution of rail passes for fully vaccinated will start from Wednesday onwards.