Amrit Bharat trains: Ticket prices for second, sleeper class to be 15% higher
As the first Amrit Bharat train, which will be flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh on December 30, has only second-class and sleeper-class compartments, the railway ministry is yet to work out the fare table for the air-conditioned classes, sources said.
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Delhi: The minimum ticket price to travel on Amrit Bharat Express trains for a
destination within one km to 50 km is Rs 35, exclusive of the reservation fee
and other charges, the Railway Board has informed all zones. It has issued a
circular on the fare structure of Amrit Bharat trains and attached a "Fare
Table" with the distance slabs and ticket prices for second-class and
sleeper-class passengers.
"If we compare the fares for these two
classes - second and sleeper with other
currently-running mail or express trains, Amrit Bharat's fare is 15 to 17 percent higher," a railway official said.
The
Railway Board has requested the Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS)
to make the necessary changes in the software to reflect the Amrit Bharat
trains and their fares.
The circular says the Amrit Bharat trains with
LHB coach-based push-pull arrangement have certain special features, such as
"horizontal sliding windows, semi-permanent coupler between the coaches,
dust-sealed wider gangways, an aerosol-based fire suppression system in toilets
and electrical cubicles, an emergency disaster management light, floor guide
fluorescent strips, bench-type design for LWS coaches, segregation of reserved
and unreserved coaches (with sliding doors) etc."
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