Title - Train services suspended

Anantnag:
Train services remained suspended today after the authorities clamped curfew in most parts of the Valley. The Railway authorities said all train services were suspended after an advisory from the state security apparatus.“We are only service providers; the decision to stop or resume the train services lies entirely with the state security machinery,” said Vikramjeet Singh, a senior official at the Railway Control Room in Baramulla.He said the decision to resume train services tomorrow would be taken later in the evening, “Let’s see what the security agencies convey in the evening.”More than three trains shuttle various times between Qazigund in Anantnag district and Baramulla in north Kashmir. The trains ferry thousands of passengers everyday.The commuters mainly comprise government employees and student. “While the educational institutions remain closed, it’s the government employees who bear the brunt of the suspended train services,” said Imtiyaz Ahmad of Anantnag, who commutes to his office in Srinagar on a daily basis.

Employees are irked by the fact that train services go off-track even on the days of simple shutdowns, leave alone curfews.

“On the one hand, the government has been advising its employees to attend offices regularly, on the other the train services are shut down,” said Adnan Dar, a commuter from north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.