Even as the Western Railway on Friday released a list of categories of essential staff that have been allowed to travel on local trains, detailing six sectors categorically, including staff from private hospitals and pathology labs, the BEST Undertaking said they would be discontinuing the buses for essential staff now that local trains have begun.

WR officials said there are no changes to the list but staff categories have now been identified for clarity so that there is no confusion on the ground. Central Railway officials said they did not want to release any such list and access to local trains remained for emergency employees as identified by the Maharashtra government.