Migrants to key goods, how railways met lockdown challenge
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Migrants to key goods, how railways met lockdown challenge
Dipak K Dash / TNN / Updated: Dec 26, 2020, 11:54 IST
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NEW DELHI: Barely days after the government declared complete lockdown in March suspending operation of air, road and rail travel due to the pandemic, Indian Railways got a unique task to transport a batch of swab samples from Delhi to Indore for testing at a lab within a set time-line. The national transporter sent these samples with a guard deployed in a freight train and there was complete monitoring till the samples were collected by the staff of the designated laboratory.