(Aditya Shaw, Intern Journalist): Metro rail services resumed in Kolkata on Monday after a gap of more than five months. An official gave this information. Regular services were suspended due to an outbreak of Covid-19. However, special trains were run on Sunday for the Neat testers.
“Services started at eight in the morning and around 3,000 people traveled by metro in the first two hours,” Kolkata Metro Railway general manager Manoj Joshi told “The last trains from the originating stations on both sides will leave at seven in the evening and complete the journey by eight o’clock in the night,” he said. Joshi said that all safety protocols including social distance were being followed.