As COVID-19 situations are nonetheless spreading, the current restrictions on travelling in Indian Railways’ regional trains, metro trains as effectively as monorails in the city of Mumbai can not be relaxed at this juncture, the state government of Maharashtra told the Bombay High Court on Tuesday. Maharashtra government’s counsel PP Kakade told a Bombay High Court’s bench of Justices Abhay Ahuja and KK Tated that at present, only frontline well being workers and workers of state government are permitted to travel on the suburban trains, monorail, and metro trains. According to a PTI report, the bench was hearing a plea filed by the CBEU (Cooperative Banks Employees Union). Through the plea, the union was looking for permission to travel to work in Mumbai by regional trains, metro trains, and monorail services.
The union’s counsel AS Peerzada requested the Bombay High Court to enable the cooperative banks’ employees to board trains to allow them to discharge required banking services. According to Peerzada, even for the duration of the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in September 2020, Indian Railways and state authorities had permitted all cooperative as effectively as private bank officials to travel by regional trains, monorail and metro trains. Even now, employees of nationalized bank are permitted to use regional train services, Peerzada added.
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However, Kakade stated that for the duration of the ongoing second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the employees of nationalized banks was at present not permitted to use regional train services. Novel coronavirus infections in the state of Maharashtra are nonetheless spreading. Thus, trains can not be opened for any person else proper now, he stated.
The Bombay HC bench also noted the petitioner had not made any documentary proof in order to show that nationalized banks’ employees is permitted to use regional train services and dismissed the plea. However, the High Court permitted the CBEU to once again strategy the court if it could make documentary proof to show the workers of nationalized bank are permitted to travel in regional trains.