Two special trains to bring back U’khand residents from Surat

ehradun: The railway ministry is going to run two special trains on May 11 and 12 to bring back Uttarakhand residents stranded in Surat, Gujarat, CM Trivendra Singh Rawat said on Sunday.
Expressing gratitude towards railway minister Piyush Goyal for approving the trains, CM Rawat said, "At 4am on May 11, the first train will start from Surat and ferry state residents, mainly of Kumaon division, to Kathgodam in Nainital district.The second train will run between Surat and Haridwar on May 12, although the timing has not been finalised yet."
State government spokesperson Madan Kaushik said in a press briefing during the day that around 30,000 state residents who were stranded in other states had been rescued till now. Maximum 11,482 people were stranded in Haryana who have now come back, followed by Chandigarh (4,838), Uttar Pradesh (3,526), Rajasthan (2,409), Delhi (482), Punjab (327) and Gujarat (319), the minister said.