Indian Railways Circular Journey tickets: Rules, benefits and booking procedure
For special journeys like pilgrimage and sightseeing tours, the Indian Railways provides the facility of booking Circular Journey train tickets. Such tickets can be bought for all travel classes, and a maximum of eight break journeys is permissible on them. Here are the advantages of booking Circular Journey tickets and the procedure of booking them.
Benefits of booking Circular Journey train tickets
With Circular Journey tickets, you get the benefit of telescopic rates, that are naturally lower than regular, point-to-point fares. Thus, by booking these tickets, one saves their own time, money and brushes off the inconvenience of booking tickets at each leg of the journey.
About itinerary finalizing, approaching DCM, cost computation and further communication
After your itinerary is finalized, you can approach the Divisional Commercial Manager of the Division station to which your journey commencement station belongs. The Divisional Commercial Manager will then compute the cost of tickets based on your itinerary and shall inform the Station Manager about the same in the prescribed format.
About purchasing the ticket and obtaining the reserved journey ticket
You can buy the Circular Journey ticket by presenting the obtained form at the Booking Office of your boarding station. Post that, you'll have to approach the Reservation Office so to reserve your accommodation for the various laps of the journey. You'll then be issued a reserved journey ticket for undertaking the journey.
Railways offers concessions to senior citizens on Circular Journey tickets
For Senior Citizens traveling a distance of 1,000kms or more, a 40% concession for male passengers and 50% concession for female passengers is granted on the cost of Circular Journey tickets, by the Indian Railways.
