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Mahakal Express: FREE Rs 10 lakh insurance, full refund in cancellation and other top details

One of the most important features of this train is that all passengers travelling on this train will be provided with a complimentary Rail Travel Insurance of up to Rs 10 lakhs.

Mahakal Express: FREE Rs 10 lakh insurance, full refund in cancellation and other top details
There will be no booking at railway reservation counters. Photo from IANS.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday flagged off the third train operated by Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) between his parliamentary constituency Varanasi and Madhya Pradesh's Indore. After the successful run of the Tejas Express trains operating on the Lucknow-Delhi and Ahmedabad-Mumbai routes, Indian Railways has now started operating the third corporate passenger train - Kashi Mahakal Express connecting religious places of the state of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Kashi Mahakal Express' routine commercial run will start from 20th February 2020 onwards. The inaugural run was flagged off from Varanasi by Prime Minister Narendra Modi through video link.

One of the most important features of this train is that all passengers travelling on this train will be provided with a complimentary Rail Travel Insurance of up to Rs 10 lakhs.

IRCTC is further facilitating the passengers by allowing automatic full refund of the train fare in case of cancellation of the train for both waitlisted as well as confirmed e-tickets.

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The train is available for booking exclusively on IRCTC website www.irctc.co.in and its mobile app “IRCTC Rail Connect”.

There will be no booking at railway reservation counters.

The trains will have advance reservation period of 120 days. While there will be no concession tickets in the train, children below 5 years of age have been exempted from fare and will be booked with their parents. Train fare is dynamic in nature. IRCTC has been given the flexibility to decide the fare of the train.

Current Booking will be available to users after preparation of first chart which will normally be 4 hours to 5 minutes before the scheduled departure of the train.

Kashi Mahakal Express will be the first passenger train of its own kind which promises to be a full service overnight journey train with high levels of on-board services complemented with exclusive optional tour packages for the passengers covering the religious, business as well as tourism sites of the states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

Written By: Prashant V. Singh
Edited By: Harish Dugh
Updated: Mon, Feb 17, 2020
03:14 pm
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