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The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) on Tuesday announced that it had suspended operation for three of its private trains till April 30 in light of the coronavirus pandemic in the country. The three trains that remain cancelled till April 30 are the IRCTC Tejas Express Train number 82501/82502 that runs between Lucknow and New Delhi, IRCTC Tejas Express Train number 82901/82902 between Mumbai and Ahmedabad and IRCTC Kashi Mahakal Express train that runs on the Varanasi-Indore route. IRCTC will provide a full refund for the ticket fare automatically without any cancellation charges to all users/passengers having booked tickets for journey date up to April 30. Officials said the decision to not run the trains till April 30 was taken keeping in mind that the cases of coronavirus in the country were increasing by the day.