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Hyderabad: The footfall of Hyderabad Metro Rail which was impacted after the outbreak of the pandemic has started increasing as major IT companies are ending the Work from Home mode.
Since February, IT companies in Hyderabad have started calling their employees to work from the office.
Due to the end in Work from Home, the footfall of Hyderabad Metro Rail has climbed to 2.3 lakh each day on red, green, and blue lines.
The footfall is expected to increase further as many IT companies in Hyderabad have asked their employees to end work from home and started working from the office after the month of April.
Before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, daily 2.80 lakh passengers used to travel through Hyderabad Metro Rail.
The service remained halted for six months. It was restarted in the month of September 2020.
Even after it, very few passengers were traveling through Metro Rail because of the COVID scare.
Now as the COVID cases have dropped in the state and IT companies decided to end Work from Home, the footfall of Metro Rail started increasing. It is expected to increase further in the coming months.
On November 10, 2021, the timing of the Metro Rail was changed. It might have also contributed to the rise in footfall.
Since November, Metro Rail is operating from 6 a.m. to 11: 15 p.m. The first and last trains from all terminal stations start at 6 a.m. and 10:15 p.m. respectively.
This post was last modified on March 3, 2022 1:58 pm