<span style="color: #222222;">Jammu and Kashmir government has given green signal to the arrival of trains in the UT with its residents being evacuated from different parts of the country amid Covid-19 lockdown.&nbsp;<br />''<br />''AIR correspondent reports that the inflow through trains was preceded by regulated road transportation of the stranded persons via Lakhanpur. The trains entering the UT will disembark the passengers at Udhampur railway station. The first train is expected to arrive tonight or tomorrow morning.&nbsp;<br />''<br />''The highly regulated homecoming of such persons aboard the trains has been initiated with elaborate preemptive arrangements.&nbsp; Authorities have framed intensive protocols and established detailed procedure for their district wise return. District administration Udhampur has created a fresh sample collection capacity of 1000 per day for train returnees as there will be 100 percent testing of the passengers for Covid-19. All arrangements for receiving, registering and sending the returnees to their destination by bus have been made. The returnees to Jammu, Samba, Kathua will be sent to Jammu where their samples will be taken and then quarantined.&nbsp;<br />''<br />''All returnees to Doda, Kishtwar will be sent to Doda and after sample collections, they will be quarantined at the respective districts. Similarly, the returnees to Reasi, Rajouri and Poonch will be sent to their districts, their samples will be taken at their respective districts and quarantined there. The returnees to Ramban, Udhampur will be kept in Udhampur where their samples will be taken and quarantined.&nbsp;<br />''<br />''The returnees to 10 districts of Kashmir valley will be sent to their respective districts and their samples will be picked up in their own districts and then quarantined there. All returnees have to be tested and undergo administrative quarantine with no exceptions.&nbsp; Only if tests come negative, they will be sent for home quarantine for 14 days. All returnees will be sent by bus convoys with police escort till they reach quarantine facilities.</span>
News On AIR | May 10, 2020 8:32 PM
J&K govt gives green signal to arrival of trains in UT