A first: Shramik train with 1,050 leaves from Delhi railway station

The New Delhi railway station is the second busiest station in the country with a daily footfall of over 500,000 a day in normal times, but today was different

Nearly 350 Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel and over 100 state government and some 200 railway staff were involved in arranging the first Shramik Special train carrying 1,050 migrants that departed from New Delhi to Madhya Pradesh late Thursday evening.
 

The New Delhi railway station is the second busiest in the country with a daily footfall of over 500,000 in normal times, but this was different. For both passengers and railway staff, the train to Chhatarpur in Madhya Pradesh meant a completely new protocol.
 

No one except those with valid passes and tickets were allowed entry into the station, which