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Business Standard
09-08-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
Festival bonanza: Railways offers 20% rebate on confirmed return tickets
The Ministry of Railways has announced an experimental "Round Trip Package for Festival Rush" scheme aimed at easing passenger congestion and ensuring smoother travel during the upcoming festive season. According to a Railway Board circular issued on August 8, 2025, the scheme offers a 20 per cent rebate on the base fare of the return journey for passengers booking confirmed tickets for both onward and return travel for the same set of passengers, class, and origin-destination pair. The initiative aims to redistribute crowding, facilitate hassle-free bookings, and enhance the utilisation of train services, including special trains, in both directions. Under the scheme, bookings will open on August 14, 2025, for onward journeys scheduled between October 13 and October 26, 2025. The corresponding return journey must be booked using the connecting journey feature for travel between November 17 and December 1, 2025. Advance reservation period norms will not apply to the return journey booking. The scheme will be valid across all classes and trains, except those operating with flexi-fare pricing, and will only apply to confirmed tickets. Both onward and return journey tickets must be booked using the same mode, either Internet (online) booking or counter booking at reservation offices. No additional fare collection will be performed if any arise during charting for these PNRs. No fare refund is permissible for tickets booked under this scheme. The scheme applies to all classes and trains, including special trains (on demand), except for trains with Flexi fare. It also does not allow any modifications or additional concessions to be permitted. The offer excludes the use of rail travel coupons, vouchers, passes, and PTOs for the discounted return trip. The Railway Board has directed zonal railways to ensure wide publicity through the press, media, and station announcements to inform passengers about the scheme.
Time of India
09-08-2025
- Time of India
Indian Railways to give 20% off on return tickets under new ‘Round Trip Package'. Check eligibility and other conditions
To ease festival season rush and make booking smoother, the Ministry of Railways has introduced an experimental 'Round Trip Package' scheme with discounted fares. The scheme aims to spread passenger traffic more evenly, improve use of trains in both directions, and apply to passengers who book their return journey within a set period. In a statement, Ministry of Railways said, "In order to avoid rush, ensure hassle free booking as well as to facilitate passengers and redistribute the peak traffic for larger range during peak festival seasons and ensure both side utilization of trains including special trains, it has been decided to formulate an experimental scheme named as Round Trip Package for festival rush on discounted fare." Productivity Tool Zero to Hero in Microsoft Excel: Complete Excel guide By Metla Sudha Sekhar View Program Finance Introduction to Technical Analysis & Candlestick Theory By Dinesh Nagpal View Program Finance Financial Literacy i e Lets Crack the Billionaire Code By CA Rahul Gupta View Program Digital Marketing Digital Marketing Masterclass by Neil Patel By Neil Patel View Program Finance Technical Analysis Demystified- A Complete Guide to Trading By Kunal Patel View Program Productivity Tool Excel Essentials to Expert: Your Complete Guide By Study at home View Program Artificial Intelligence AI For Business Professionals Batch 2 By Ansh Mehra View Program Eligibility criteria Under the Indian Railways ' Round Trip Package scheme, the rebates will be applicable when booked for both onward and return journey for the same set of passengers. 'Passenger details of return journey will be same as of onward journey,' it said. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Learn More - How Donating Sperm May Boost Your Income SpellRock Undo When will ticket booking start? Booking start date shall be 14.08.2025 for the ARP date 13th October 2025. Onward ticket shall be booked first for the train start date between 13th October 2025 and 26th October 2025 and subsequently return journey ticket shall be booked by using connecting journey feature for the train start date between 17th November and 1st December 2025. Advance reservation period will not be applicable for booking of return journey. ET Online The above booking shall be permissible only for confirmed tickets in both directions, said the Ministry. Live Events Rebate/discount offered Total rebates of 20% shall be granted on base fare of return journey only. Booking under this scheme shall be for the same class and same O-D pair for both onward and return journey. No refund Under the scheme, no refund of fare shall be permissible for the tickets booked. "The above scheme shall be allowed for all classes and in all trains including special trains (Trains on demand) except trains having Flexi fare. No modification will be allowed on these ticket in either of the journey." No discounts, Rail travel coupons, Voucher based bookings, Passes or PTOs etc. shall be admissible during return journey booking on concessional fare. Both onward and return journey tickets must be booked using the same mode either, raiwlays said.
