 "Indian Railway")
Coronavirus (COVID-19) may well turn out to be a spoiler for Indian Railways in the current financial year. So far, the number of reserved passengers and the earnings from it has dropped 28 per cent and 24 per cent, respectively, compared to March 2019.
The national transporter has cancelled 155 pairs of trains this week as a step to curb the spread of COVID-19. In the past seven days, the drop in passenger numbers reached as high as 55 per cent and earnings by 47 per cent, respectively, shows the data from Indian Railways.
This will hit annual earnings for 2019-20 that
