Accordingly maharashtra chief minister uddhav thackeray urged PM modi to resume the mumbai suburban trains for essential services. He also suggested verifying the credentials of people in the essential sectors before boarding the trains. tamilnadu chief minister edappadi k palaniswami categorically told the prime minister not to resume air or train services to tamilnadu until May 31. He said “I request you to not begin regular air services until May 31. We know from the press that regular train services to and from chennai will commence from May 12. As the positive cases in chennai are showing an increasing trend, don’t permit train serviced up to May 31 in my state".
telangana chief minister chandrasekhar rao-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>k chandrasekhar rao also urged modi not to revive the passenger train services, which were suspended in march as part of preventive measures to contain the spread of coronavirus in the country. andhra pradesh chief minister jagan MOHAN REDDY' target='_blank' title='ys jagan mohan reddy-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>ys jagan mohan reddy was not averse to the idea of resuming trains service in his state. The cm was more focused on opening public transport within the state to revive the state economy.
The kerala chief minister, however, was averse to the idea of allowing online booking of train tickets as would make Kerala’s efforts to prevent community spread futile. “Train tickets to the state must be allowed based on registration done by states. What the Centre has done is to allow online booking without considering the registration done by the state. If online bookings are allowed, the state’s attempts to contain transmission will not be effective.” The karnataka CMO, in a statement to the media, told that chief minister BS Yediyurappa told modi that all interstate travellers will be placed under compulsory institutional quarantine and tested in his state. Yediyurappa insisted that all interstate travellers should be issued a health clearance certificate at the place of origin of the journey by local authorities or hospitals and that those without a health clearance certificate be placed under compulsory quarantine.
