Special Shramik train from Gurugram reaches Nagaland 

Morung Express News

Dimapur | May 25 


The Special Shramik train from Gurugram, Haryana carrying around 426 returnees from Nagaland reached Dimapur Railway Station on Monday morning. 


The train had moved from Gurugram on May 22 with over 1300 North East-bound passengers and reached Dimapur around 10:27 am on May 25. 


The passengers underwent a distressing experience on May 21, during a stopover at the Danapur railway station, near Bihar’s capital Patna.


People waiting at the platform reportedly tried to get in while threatening to vandalise it.  Unable to get in, window panes were broken. 


“It seems they pelted stones at many trains not just at our particular train. They wanted to get on but could not and also because they felt their train was being made to wait, while others were made to advance,” official sources told The Morung Express on Sunday.  


The stone pelting culminated as the train neared Katihar where the police finally intervened.  RPF personnel boarded at the Katihar station to escort the train till New Jalpaiguri in West Bengal and there was no report of any passenger in the special train getting injured, a Nagaland Government official informed.  


The passengers would be taken to NER Agri Expo, 4th Mile Dimapur for initially before assigning them quarantine centres, depending upon their home districts.  


The Nagaland Government has ordered 14-day compulsory quarantine at designated institutional and community quarantine centres for everyone coming from other states. This will be followed by 14 days home quarantine.