Despite the improvement in the pandemic situation and the full-fledged functioning of all major transportation services, the call of commuters to resume suspended passenger train services under the Southern Railway is yet to evoke any favourable response from the authorities.
Those who have been depending on local trains for inter-district journeys are now forced to depend on superfast train services by paying extra money from their pockets.
Rail passengers’ association leaders point out that not even a single service under the Palakkad division has been resumed. More than half of the previously operated 12 passenger train services are still remaining suspended for unknown reasons.
