<span style="color: #222222;">Maharashtra government today made it mandatory for government, essential services and employees from municipalities to get fully vaccinated to procure the universal pass to travel via suburban local trains.<br />''<br />''An order issued by the state chief secretary Sitaram Kunte said, currently, the essential services like medical services, telecom sector, gas supplies, water providers, government personnel among others have been issued passes irrespective of their vaccination status, as to ensure that essential services are not affected.<br />''<br />''The order further said that those people who have completed both doses of vaccine and 14 days have elapsed since the administration of the second dose will be issued the universal pass.<br />''<br />''A fully vaccinated person will henceforth get monthly, quarterly and half-yearly passes to commute via local train, it added.</span><br />