Allow co-op, pvt, foreign banks employees to use suburban trains: Unions

Bank unions have written to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to let employees of private, foreign and co-operative lenders commute by suburban trains, officials said on Friday.

Official notifications had included only employees of nationalised banks to take the local train to work from July 1, excluding their other colleagues.

In normal times, the local trains ply over 8 million passengers a day in crammed rakes, earning praise as 'lifeline of Mumbai'. The network, however, is allowing only limited passengers to board the trains due to the social distancing restrictions.

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