Railways increase advance reservation period from 30 days to 120 days

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The Railways on Thursday has decided to increase the advance reservation period (ARP) of all Specials notified from 30 days to 120 days for 30 Special Rajdhani type train and 200 Special Mail Exp trains (total 230 trains) running with effect from 12.05.2020 and 01.06.2020 respectively

“Ministry of Railways has decided to increase the advance reservation period (ARP) of all Specials notified from 30 days to 120 days. Booking of parcel and luggage shall be permitted in all these 230 trains,” the railways said in a statement.

It said the other terms and conditions such as current booking, tatkal quota allocation of seats to roadside stations and others will be the same as in regular time tabled trains.

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“The above changes shall be implemented with effect from 08:00 hrs of train booking date of 31st May 2020 onwards,” it said

These instructions can also be viewed on the Indian Railways website-www.indianrailways.gov.in under the head commercial circulars in Traffic Commercial Directorate.


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Manish Khandelwal
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