From June 1, the Indian Railways will be expanding its passenger train services from 15 to 200. 200 new time-tabled non-AC trains will run from next month.
New Delhi| The Indian Railways on Thursday said that over 1.78 lakh train tickets were booked within three hours of opening of the online bookings for some trains that are to start operations June 1 onwards.
āAt 01:00 hours, 76 trains were available in the system for booking. 1,78,990 tickets were booked for 4,23,538 passengers,ā a Railways spokesperson said.
Earlier, the Railways said that till 12:00 hours, 1,49,025 tickets were booked for 2,90,510 passengers for 73 trains.
From June 1, the Indian Railways will be expanding its passenger train services from 15 to 200. 200 new time-tabled non-air conditioned trains will run from next month.
āThe fare of these trains will be minimal sleeper rates and can be availed by all categories of people,ā a railway official said. The 200 non-Air Conditioned trains are in addition to the Shramik special and the Air Conditioned special trains which are presently running on the Rajdhani routes linking 15 major cities to Delhi.
The list of 100 pairs of passenger train includes popular trains such as Durontos, Sampark Krantis, Jan Shatabdis and Poorva Express.
This is the second slew of special passenger train services that marked the Railways graded restoration of its trains which were discontinued to curb the spread of the pandemic.
Online registration for these 200 (100 pairs) trains began from 10 am today.
Only online Ticket bookings will be done through IRCTC website or through Mobile App.
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Unreserved (UTS) tickets will not be allowed and no tickets will be issued onboard to any passenger during the journey.
However, only passengers with Confirmed tickets shall be allowed to enter the Railway station.
The decision comes days after the Central government extended the national lockdown for the third time but relaxed the bar on bus service and other public transport. The final choice in terms of relaxing public transport was left to the states.
The total cases in India surged to 1,12,359 including over 42,000 cured/discharged or migrated and 3,435 deaths amid lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19.
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