This mass migration was effected by IR at the cost of curtailing train services in other parts of the country by diverting a humungous amount of resources- railway staff and rolling stock for this purpose. ![]() These many passengers were usually carried by 800 passenger trains. Mass Movement of Population During Partitionīy November 1947 about two and half million refugees had already been moved from Pakistan to India and vice versa. Partition meant several issues that needed urgent attention of the then Railway Minister Dr John Mathai. Those were the days of railway companies owned by the British or the native states in the sub-continent. John Mathai, the First Railway Minister of Independent India
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