Tag: Shatabdi

Bhubaneswar: To provide comfortable journey to the commuters and to avoid rush in regular trains, East Coast Railway (ECoR) has decided to run Shatabdi and Jan Shatabdi Express trains daily instead of earlier six days in a week. Shatabdi Express on Wednesdays and Jan Shatabdi Express on Sundays will run as Special Trains till June […]

New Delhi: Now, passengers of Rajdhani and Shatabdi will get text messages on their mobile phones if the trains get delayed by more than one hour. Railways made the facility operational on Saturday for all Rajdhani and Shatabdi trains. A senior Railway Ministry official stated the SMS facility would be extended to other trains as […]

New Delhi: Central government employees will not get a daily allowance on Leave Travel Concession (LTC), according to an official order. The LTC allows the grant of leave and ticket reimbursement to employees who are entitled under the rules to travel to their home towns and other places. Employees were earlier entitled to an allowance […]

New Delhi: Good news for train passengers as Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday said that presently there is no proposal to discontinue the flexi fare scheme. At present, flexi fare is applicable to only 141 out of 13,452 trains and railways has not lost traffic to other mode of transport like airlines. Goyal also […]

New Delhi: On the New Year’s eve, the railways announced fare hike across its network, excluding suburban trains, effective from January 1, 2020, according to an order issued on Tuesday. While suburban fares remain unchanged, ordinary non-AC, non-suburban fares hiked by 1 paise per km of journey. The railways also announced a two paise/km hike […]