<span style="color: #222222;">Indian Railways has made railway parcel vans available for quick mass transportation of essential items by E-Commerce entities and other customers including State governments. Transportation of essential items like medical supplies, medical equipment and food in small parcel sizes is very important during the lockdown in the wake of COVID-19.  Time-tabled Parcel Special trains are going on select routes to ensure uninterrupted supply of essential items.<br />''<br />'' Zonal Railways are regularly identifying and notifying routes for these Parcel Special trains. Presently these trains are being operated on sixty-five routes. These routes have been identified for regular connectivity between major cities of the country, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad.<br />'' <br />'' Till yesterday evening, seventy seven trains were run, out of which seventy five were time-tabled Parcel Special trains. 1835 Tonnes of material was loaded, giving an earning of 63 lakh rupees to Railways in one day.<br />''<br />''The total number of trains run since lockdown till yesterday evening is 522, out of which 458 have been time-tabled trains. 20 thousand 474 Tonnes of consignments have been loaded and the earnings have been around 7.5 crore rupees</span><br />