kolkata the bengal government on wednesday made a negative rtpcr test report mandatory for passengers arriving from other states by trains and buses cm mamata banerjee on wednesday said the state will carry out random surveys at bus termini and railway stations to check if passengers are carrying the reports moreover random rat tests will also be conducted at places and those found covid positive will be sent to quarantine centres railway officials said the matter has been discussed and they can follow the maharashtra model where it is mandatory for passengers from specific states to carry negative rtpcr test reports maharashtra had made it mandatory for all passengers coming from delhi ncr kerala goa gujarat rajasthan and uttarakhand to get a covidnegative certificate to enter the state earlier on april 19 home secretary h k dwivedi health secretary n s nigam and transport secretary r k sinha had met eastern railway and southeastern railway agms and asked them to prepare a draft sop in the wake of the second wave of the pandemic the issue of making rtpcr tests compulsory for those who boarded trains from other states had figured prominently in the discussionthis way the influx of other variants of covid19 can be prevented said an official the transport department has also asked all interstate passenger bus operators to make rtpcr tests mandatory for passengers we are also gearing up to carry out checks at different bus termini if necessary we will send such passengers and operators to quarantine centres together said a transport department officer