{"id":15290,"date":"2023-09-29T11:51:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T11:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jammukashmirlinks.com\/?p=15290"},"modified":"2023-09-29T11:51:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T11:51:28","slug":"farmers-stir-in-punjab-passengers-stranded-at-jammu-katra-stations-as-7-trains-cancelled-13-diverted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/?p=15290","title":{"rendered":"Farmers\u2019 stir in Punjab: Passengers stranded at Jammu, Katra stations as 7 trains cancelled, 13 diverted"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jammu :<\/strong> A large number of passengers, many of them pilgrims, were stranded at Jammu and Katra railway stations on Friday as seven trains were cancelled and 13 diverted due to a \u201crail roko\u201d agitation by farmers in different parts of Punjab.<\/p>\n

Members of several farmers\u2019 bodies began their three-day agitation on Thursday to press their demands such as a financial package for losses caused by recent floods, legal guarantee to minimum support price (MSP) and debt waiver.<\/p>\n

As part of the protest, farmers squatted on train tracks in many places, including Moga, Hoshiarpur, Gurdaspur, Jalandhar, Tarn Taran, Sangrur, Patiala, Ferozepur, Bathinda and Amritsar.<\/p>\n

\u201cDue to this agitation, some trains have been affected but 60 to 70 per cent of trains are being run through diverted routes. Officials have been put on duty round the clock to monitor train traffic and ensure minimum inconvenience to passengers,\u201d senior railway official Prateek Shrivastav said.<\/p>\n

Railway officials said 13 trains have so far been diverted and seven cancelled due to the agitation.<\/p>\n

Shrivastav said the agitation has directly affected Ambala and Firozpur railway divisions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe trains have been diverted from here via the Nakodar area (in Punjab). Major affected area is Jalandhar. Two special trains to Katra have been cancelled. Shiv Shakti train has also been cancelled,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The official said that every day, 15,000 to 20,000 people arrive at the Katra railway station. \u201cOf them, 70 per cent are pilgrims. Due to this agitation, some trains have been affected and the majority of trains are being diverted to ferry them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

However, the number of stranded passengers at Jammu and Katra railway stations are increasing causing them inconvenience due to the cancellation and diversion of trains.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are stranded at the railway station. we don\u2019t know what to do. We would have reached home. But now they are saying that trains will be diverted\u2026. It is a problem for us,\u201d Arvind Kumar of Gorakhpur said.<\/p>\n

Bihari Lal of Chhattisgarh, returning home after paying obeisance at the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine, remained stranded at the railway station.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been stranded here since yesterday after the train was cancelled. We don\u2019t know what to do. No one is listening to us. We are a group of eight people, including children,\u201d Lal said.<\/p>\n

Suraj Singh of Ahmedabad, who along with 11 people returned from a Kashmir visit and were to take a train back home, was told that the train had been cancelled.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey told us to come tomorrow. Where will we stay? It means Rs 10,000 to Rs 15,000 for staying in a hotel. Taxi operators demanded Rs 35,000 for a trip to Delhi,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jammu : A large number of passengers, many of them pilgrims, were stranded at Jammu and Katra railway stations on Friday as seven trains were cancelled and 13 diverted due to a \u201crail roko\u201d agitation by farmers in different parts of Punjab. Members of several farmers\u2019 bodies began their three-day agitation on Thursday to press […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,19,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jammu","category-latest-news","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15292,"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15290\/revisions\/15292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}