CONVERSION OF COACHES INTO COVID CARE UNITS – MINISTER OF RAILWAYS

UNSTARRED QUESTION / நட்சத்திரமிடப்படாத கேள்வி 

690. DR. T. SUMATHY (a) THAMIZHACHI THANGAPANDIAN:
SHRI BALUBHAU ALIAS SURESH NARAYAN DHANORKAR: 

Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:
(a) whether the Government has taken effective steps to open 
Passenger railway transport as its operations were halted amid 
the outbreak of the COVID-19;
(b) if so, the details thereof and the approximate time by which the 
passenger train services are to be restored;
(c) the appropriate action plan decided or to be taken by the 
Government to mitigate the problems faced by people once the 
train services restart all over the country after COVID-19 
lockdown;
(d) whether the Government has provided large number of rail 
coaches for temporary COVID-19 treatment and care units 
during the lockdown crisis;
(e) if so, the details thereof and the utility status of such 
transformed rail coaches in the country, railway zone-wise; and
(f) the approximate time by which these transformed coaches are 
likely to be put into passenger transport again?