Railways has now started the blanket-sheet facility in 11 more pairs of trains from April 1. Out of this, eight trains start from Indore while three start from Dr. Ambedkar Nagar. During the Corona period, Indian Railways had stopped many facilities given to passengers.
There is good news for railway passengers. During the Corona period, Indian Railways had stopped many facilities given to passengers. After the reduction in the cases of Kovid-19 pandemic, now the situation is gradually returning to normal.
Along with this, the Railways is also restoring its services in a phased manner. It also includes the facility of linen i.e. bedroll. This facility was started from March 21 and now it is being started in other trains as well.
Railways has now started this facility in 11 more pairs of trains from April 1. Out of this, eight trains start from Indore while three start from Dr. Ambedkar Nagar. These include Indore-Daund Express, Indore-Chandigarh Express,
Indore-Nagpur Trishatabdi Express, Indore-Veraval Mahamana Express, Indore-Bhandarkund Pench Valley Express, Indore-Bikaner Mahamana Express, Indore-Patna Express via Sultanpur,
Indore-Patna Express via Ayodhya Cantt, Dr. Ambedkar Nagar-Shri Mata Vaishno Dovi Katra Express, Dr. Ambedkar Nagar-Nagpur Express and Dr. Ambedkar Nagar-Yesvantpur Express.
Railway’s instructions The
Railway Board had sent an instruction to all the zonal railways on 10 March to start the bedroll facility. This directive was to be implemented with immediate effect. But it took several weeks to implement this directive from the Zonal Railways with immediate effect.
The implementation of this started from March 21. Bed roll facility was introduced in Chhapra to Durg 15159/15160 Sarnath Express, 12559/12560 Banaras New Delhi Express and 14321 Bareilly Bhuj Express.
After this, bed roll facility started in some trains from March 24. These include 12555/12556 Gorakhpur-Hisar Gorakhdham Express, 15011/15012 Lucknow-Chandigarh Express, 12529/12530 Lucknow-Patliputra Express and 12533/12534 Lucknow-Mumbai Pushpak Express.
Bedroll facility started in 15073/15074 Tanakpur-Singrauli Triveni Express, 15075/15076 Tanakpur-Shaktinagar Triveni Express from 28th March. On the same day bedroll also started getting in 22536/22535 Rameswaram Express, 12581/12582 Banaras-New Delhi Express, Kathgodam-Jaisalmer, Ramnagar-Jaisalmer, Ramnagar-Agra Fort Express.
In which trains facility has started
similarly from April 1, 22531/22532 Chhapra-Mathura Express, 11513/11514 Chhapra Kachari-Gomtinagar Express, 15115/15116 Chhapra-Delhi Express, 15127/15128 Banaras-New Delhi Kashi Vishwanath Express, 15025 /15026 Mau-Anand Vihar Express, 15057/15058 Gorakhpur-Anand Vihar Express, 22539/22540 Mau-Anand Vihar Terminus Superfast Express is getting bedroll.
From April 7, linen facility will start in 12951 Mumbai New Delhi Rajdhani Express, August Kranti Express and Swarna Jayanti Rajdhani Express from Ahmedabad to New Delhi. According to the information received from the Railways,
from April 15, 22537/22538 Gorakhpur-Lokmanya Tilak Superfast Express, 12571/12572 Gorakhpur-Anand Vihar Express and 12595/12596 Gorakhpur-Anand Vihar Express will also get bedroll facility. In some other trains also this facility may be available back during this period. Different zonal railways will give this information at their level.
