Indian Railways has offered discounts on train tickets of premium trains like Shatabdi, Rajdhani and Duronto express ahead of this Diwali.
The passengers travelling in Shatabdi Express from Ranchi to Howrah will not have to pay Flexi-Fares during this off-season discount. Similarly, the passengers travelling from Ranchi to New Delhi in Rajdhani Express will not have to pay the Flexi-Fares, informed railway PR official of Dhanbad.
The Indian railway permanently discontinued Flexi-Fares in 15 trains while providing off-season discount on the normal fares in 32 trains. “It has also reduced Flexi-Fares from 1.5 to 1.4 times the base ticket fare in 101 trains,” he added.
As a gift of Diwali and aiming to increase the number of passengers, Indian Railway has decided to provide 20 percent discount on the normal fares in 2AC, 3 AC and AC Chair cars against on the usual vacant seats, said the official.
But the passengers, travelling in Howrah Rajdhani, Sealdah Rajdhani and Sealdah Duronto, crossing from the Dhanbad section will have to pay Flexi-Fares, he said adding “instead of paying 1.5 percent they will have to pay only 1.4 percent Flexi-Fare only.”
Briefing the off-season discount details a senior railway official said, the trains running with low occupancies, which 70 percents seats are usually got reserved will provided the discount of 20 percent on its normal fare to its passenger
While such trains which 80 percent seats are usually got reserved will provide only 10 percent off-season discount to its passengers.
“The discount will not valid for such trains which usually run with more than 80 percent reserved seats,” added the official.
This offers (discount) on travelling tickets and reduction of Flexi-Fares is going to benefit the passengers as well the Railways too, he said.