With the app still being developed, the state government has ordered issuance of monthly passes at stations from today, August 11. All civic bodies in the MMR have been told to set up help desks at railway stations to verify relevant documents of commuters eligible to travel via local trains. Here, officials will verify citizens’ second Covid-19 dose certificate and ID card, and stamp these documents. Commuters can then buy a monthly pass, to be valid only from August 15, at the ticket counter. Daily tickets won’t be issued.

Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had earlier announced that the general public can start taking local trains 14 days after receiving their second dose of Covid-19 vaccine. For this, an app was being developed for the issuance of an universal photo travel pass (having a QR code and commuter's photo) to buy a monthly pass, but some more time is needed to get it ready.