February 10: The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation will be running 4 special pilgrim trains from Rajkot to Gujarat in February and March. IRCTC is a subsidiary of the Indian Railways.
Two of these pilgrim special will begin in February. Dakshin Darshan Pilgrim Special train will be covering prominent places like Nashik, Aurangabad, Kurnool town, Rameshwaram, Madurai, and Kanyakumari as the train will commence its journey from 14 Feb to 25 Feb.
Another special rail line, Namami Gange Pilgrim Special train is instructed to cover locations like Varanasi, Gaya, Kolkata, Ganga Sagar and Puri. This journey will be commenced within the time period of 27 Feb and 8 March. The information about both the trains was drawn by the tourism officials.
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The group General Manager of IRCTC Western Zone, Rahul Himalayan quoted, “All the four trains will commence from and terminate in Rajkot. Two pilgrim special trains will start in February. The Dakshin Darshan Pilgrim Special Train, covering Nashik, Aurangabad, Parli, Kurnool town, Rameswaram, Madurai and Kanyakumari will be from February 14 to February 25. Namami Gange Pilgrim Special Train, which will run between from February 27 and March 8, will cover Varanasi, Gaya, Kolkata, Ganga Sagar and Puri. The Bharat Darshan trains will start in March.”
Further, he added, “The Kumbh Haridwar Bharat Darshan Train, covering Mathura, Haridwar, Rishikesh, Amritsar and Vaishnodevi will run from March 6 to March 14. While the South India Tour Bharat Darshan Train will cover Rameswaram, Madurai, Kanyakumari, Trivandrum, Guruvayur, Tirupati and Mysore from March 20 to March 31.”
Along with this, IRCTC will begin the Corporate Tejas Express train on the Ahmedabad-Mumbai route from 14th of February.
Further, sharing his take over the development, the joint general manager of IRCTC, Vayunandan Shukla said, “The Tejas train operations were stopped in March of last year owing to the Corona pandemic outbreak. The IRCTC once again resumed these services as the lockdown was eased in October last year, but due to low occupancy, the operations were stopped. But now once again, we have decided to resume its functioning. The train will be running on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and on Mondays. The ticket prices of these special train cover travel, food, local bus transport, Dharmashala accommodation, tour guide and housekeeping expenses.”
