Solely passengers who’ve been administered with two doses of Covid vaccination can be allowed to journey within the suburban practice companies within the Chennai area from January 10. That is a part of the brand new tips to come back into power from Monday, based on a Southern Railway press launch.
Making an allowance for the present surge within the Covid circumstances and risk of Omicron variant, the Tamil Nadu authorities has imposed a number of restrictions since January 6. As per this suburban practice companies shall be permitted for operation with 50 per cent of the seating capability. On account of this, the next restrictions shall come into impact from 04:00 hours of January 10 until 23:59 hours of January 31 within the suburban practice companies in Chennai area, together with the prolonged areas of Chennai Suburban.
Solely passengers in possession of certificates for Covid vaccination (each doses) can be permitted to journey in suburban trains. They might want to produce the second dose vaccination certificates/last certificates for the problem of journey/season tickets on the counters together with their legitimate ID proofs.
For passengers already possessing season tickets issued previous to right this moment, such passengers will essentially carry the second dose vaccination certificates/last Certificates together with their legitimate ID proofs and produce the identical on demand by the ticket checking employees.
Southern Railway appealed to passengers to be absolutely conscious of the restrictions imposed by the State authorities and to undertake the journey solely in accordance with norms laid down.
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The Railway administration shall impose a penalty of Rs 500 wherever passengers are discovered to not be sporting the masks. Passengers are requested to co-operate with Railway staff for checking of your legitimate paperwork at stations and throughout the journey, the discharge stated.