Indian Railways has lost close to 2,000 of its employees, including frontline staff like station masters, to the pandemic since last year. The Railway Ministry on Monday said that even now around 1,000 railwaymen are catching Covid on a daily basis.
"We have to move freight and people. Around 1,000 cases are reported daily. We have augmented the number of beds, we have built oxygen plants in rail hospitals. We take care of our staff," Railway Board chairman Suneet Sharma said.
So far, 113 station masters have died in the pandemic, most of them in the second wave this year, The Indian Express has reported quoting the All Indian Station Masters’ Association (AISMA). The Railway Protection Force has so far lost 50 men.