nIn a major relief to the people of Chhattisgarh stranded in New Delhi amid the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown, the first superfast Rajdhani Express from the national capital to Bilaspur arrived in Raipur on Wednesday with nearly 1,300 passengers.
According to official information, there were 1,298 passengers on the train, with 457 alighting at Raipur railway station and 841 at Bilaspur.
All the passengers seemed relieved to reach their home state.
“Everyone was examined at the station with thermal screening and pulse oximeter. As many as 17 teams were deployed for the health check-up,” Raipur district administration PRO Pankaj Gupta said.
According to Gupta, 12 teams were deployed near the main gate and five near the old main gate.
Besides body temperature, pulse and oxygen concentrations were also checked, he said.
All the passengers were instructed to stay in home quarantine for 14 days. The home quarantine stamp was marked on the hands of all the passengers.
A number of buses were arranged by the Raipur Municipal Corporation to drop the passengers in different places of the city. The platform of the station was sanitized before the arrival of the train.