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Kashi Mahakal Express to start commercial run from today
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SME Times News Bureau | 20 Feb, 2020
The Indian Railway Catering and
Tourism Corporation (IRCTC)- operated third train between Varanasi and
Indore, the Kashi Mahakal Express, will begin its first commercial run
from Thursday.
The train was flagged off on February 16 by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi, where he launched over 50 projects
worth Rs 1,250 crore.
Till Wednesday, about 90 per cent of the
berths were reserved. The railway officials said that 612 out of 648
berths were booked by 7 p.m. on Wednesday.
The new Kashi Mahakal
Express will connect three places -- Jyotirlinga-Omkareshwar (near
Indore in Madhya Pradesh), Mahakaleshwar (Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh) and
Kashi Vishwanath (Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh).
The Kashi Mahakal
Express will operate three days in a week and it will be a bi-weekly
service through the Sultanpur-Lucknow route and a weekly service via the
Prayagraj route.
The Varanasi-Indore Kashi Mahakal Express will
depart from Varanasi at 2.45 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday to reach
Indore at 9.40 a.m. on Wednesday and Friday.
Similarly, the
train will start from Indore at 10.55 a.m. every Wednesday and Friday
and will reach Varanasi next morning at 6 a.m.
The train will have stoppages at Ujjain, Sant Hirdaram Nagar, Bina, Jhansi, Kanpur and Sultanpur stations in both directions.
Meanwhile, Kashi Mahakal Express will be a weekly service via Prayagraj route.
Varanasi-Indore
Kashi Mahakal Express will depart from Varanasi at 3.15 p.m. every
Sunday to reach Indore at 9.40 a.m. the next day. Indore-Varanasi
Express will depart from Indore at 10.55 a.m. every Monday and reach
Varanasi at 5 a.m. the next day.
This train will halt at Ujjain, Sant Hirdaram Nagar, Bina, Jhansi, Kanpur and Allahabad stations in both directions.
Kashi
Mahakal Express will follow a dynamic fare structure like the other two
Tejas Express trains, and one-way journey from Varanasi to Indore in
Kashi Mahakal Express will cost Rs 1,951 inclusive of four meals.
According
to IRCTC officials, Indore-Varanasi Kashi Mahakal Express will be the
first private train that will run overnight and for a comfortable long
distance journey, the train will feature a host of facilities.
IRCTC will serve vegetarian food, housekeeping services, on-board security services and bedrolls.
The IRCTC officials said that passengers will also get complementary insurance of Rs 10 lakh.
The
train will have an advance reservation period of 120 days and will only
have the general and foreign tourist quotas. The current booking will
be available to the passengers on the platform itself after preparation
of first chart, four hours to five hours before the scheduled departure
of the train.
To facilitate travel for pilgrims, IRCTC is also
introducing special tour packages for passengers who want to see the
pilgrim centres enroute. The tour options are; Mahakal Darshan
(Ujjain-Omkareshwar), Bhopal-Sanchi-Bhimbetka, Malwa Jyotrilinga Darshan
(Ujjain-Omkareshwar-Maheshwar-Indore) and
Bhopal-Sanchi-Bhimbetka-Ujjain. Other tour options include, Kashi,
Ayodhya and Prayag; Kashi Darshan; Kashi, Prayag, Ayodhya; Kashi and
Prayag and only Kashi.
The train has features like CCTV cameras,
which will be monitored online around the clock from the IRCTC centres,
whereas for the first time the IRCTC has brought the marshals in the
train for passengers' safety and also to make people aware to not smoke
inside the train as it has smoke and heat sensors installed in the
coaches as well as in the bathroom.
For the visually impaired
passengers, the train coaches will have the seat numbers written in
braille, and the catering staff dressed in yellow kurta and payjama with
a rudraksh mala in their neck to promote the theme. Earlier, the IRCTC
has successfully launched two Tejas Express trains on New Delhi-Lucknow
and Mumbai-Ahmedabad routes.
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