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Booking of reserved tickets by Foreign Tourists online

Commercial Circular No. 54 of 2017 · 2017-07-14
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Circular numberCommercial Circular No. 54 of 2017
File numberNo. 2017/TG-1/20/P/FT
Date2017-07-14
TypeCommercial Circular
Topicreservation
CurrencyHistorical — likely superseded
Official PDFindianrailways.gov.in

Summary

Booking of reserved tickets by Foreign Tourists online The berths under existing foreign tourist quota shall also be booked on

Text of the circular

Government of India (Bharat Sarkar) eee
Ministry of Railways (Rail Mantralaya)
(Railway Board)
No. 2017/TG-1/20/P/FT Quota ं New Delhi, Dated: 14.07.2017

faze eR Ce, Commercial Managers,
All Zonal Railways

Managing Director,
CRIS, Chanakyapuri,
New Delhi.

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(COMMERCIAL CIRCULAR NO.34 OF 2017)
Sub: Booking of reserved tickets by Foreign Tourists online.

As present facility of booking reserved tickets by Foreign Tourists upto 360
days in advance is available while booking on the authority of Ind Rail Passes,
through GSAs (available in five countries) or at ITB centers in India. With a
view to facilitate foreign tourists to book tickets online in advance, it has been
decided to extend them the facility to book reserved tickets upto 365 days in
advance through internet. This will be in addition to Foreign Tourist Quota being
earmarked at present. A detailed scheme on this account along with clarification
issued to CRIS is enclosed. | |

2. Necessary instructions may be issued to all concerned (especially
reservation staff and ticket checking staff) to educate them about the features of
this scheme and also that of charging of fare for Foreign Tourist Quota within
Advance Reservation Period.

3. It is requested that these instructions may be implemented with immediate
effect. Wide publicity about this facility should be given through all possible
means.

Ss War
(Vikram Singh)
Director Passenger Marketing
Railway Board

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Copy to:

1. | CCM/PMs and CCM/PSs, all Zonal Railways

2. EDV(T), EDFC, DVT, DF(C), OSD/TC, F(C) & V(SS) branches of Railway Board

3. GGM/IT/ARCTC, B 148, 110 Floor, Statesman House, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi - 110001

4, GM/PRS, CRIS, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.

5. Director General, Professor/Training & Professor/Commercial Railway Staff College, Vadodara.
6. The Principals, Zonal Railway Training Institutes, Central Railway/Bhusawal, Eastern

Railway/Bhuli-Dhanbad, Northern Railway/Chandausi, East Central railway/Muzaffarpur, NF
Railway/Alipurduar, Southern Railway/Trichy, South Central Railway/Moula Ali, SE
Railway/Sini, North Western Railway/Udaipur.

7, Director, Indian Railway Institute of Transport Mahagement, Hardoi Bypass Road, Manak Nagar
Lucknow-2260011

8. General Secretary, National Federation of Indian Railwaymen (NFIR), 3, Chelmsford Road, New
Delhi. ;

. General Secretary, All India Railwaymen Federation ( AIRF), 4, State Entry Road, New Delhi

10. Secretary General, Federation of Railway Officers Association (FROA), Room No. 370, Rail
Bhawan, New Delhi

11, Secretary General, Indian Railways Promotee Officers Federation GRPOF), Room No. 268, Rail
Bhawan, New Delhi

12. Secretary General, All India RPF Association, Room No. 256-D, Rail Bhawan, New Dell

13. CTM, Metro Railway, Metro Rail Bhawan, 33/1, J.L. Nehru Road, Kolkata-71

14. MD, Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd., Belapur Bhavan, Plot No.6, Sector 11, CBD Belapur,

Navi Mumbai-400614.
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BOOKING OF FOREIGN TOURISTS THROUGH INTERNET UPTO 365
DAYS IN ADVANCE |

With a view to provide confirmed reservation to foreign tourists
through internet (e-ticketing) upto 365 days in advance, it has been decided
that they may be allowed to book accommodation in executive Class/1%t
AC/2™ AC Class in all trains including Shatabdi, Rajdhani, Duronto,
Gatimaan etc. for which the fares shall be uniformly charged at 1.5 times the
base fare by IR and IRCTC will collect enhanced service charges of Rs. 200

per ticket. The procedure for the same shall be as under:

i. For booking the tickets the passport number, Nationality and the
international Mobile no. of the passenger has to be mandatorily
entered for generation of the ticket.

ii. All tickets will be booked on applicable fare and no concession shall be
admissible.

iii. Payment shall be made only through international debit/credit cards.
An SMS confirming the reservation of the ticket will be sent to the
registered mobile number.

iv. The pas

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