Circular Journey Tickets: Supreme Convenience with Telescopic Rates
Indian Railways is a monopoly operated under the Government of India. With a vision to provide better railway journey experience to the travelers and a smooth operational flow of Railways, the Indian Railways is on a recurring effort to reach their vision. Every year, IR comes with some surprising rules and facilities for the travelers which make it rank the best among the other railways’ network of the world. It has introduced the facility of “Circular Journey Tickets” which saves time and money of the passengers and gives them a supreme and comfortable journey to their destination.
What is a Circular Journey Ticket?
Indian Railways has introduced this service to give a break to the break journey rules when the passengers want to travel in a particular circular route. If a passenger wants to travel from Delhi- Ahmedabad-Mumbai–Goa-Kerala-Kanyakumari–Delhi, so instead of buying a separate ticket for each destination, one can buy a collective ticket for all these spots at once, through which the traveler can save money and make their journey economical. The circular ticketing option is best for pilgrims who want to visit maximum numbers of holy places without the hassles of purchasing separate tickets for every destination. Circular Journey tickets give you the benefit of telescopic rates, which are considerably lower than regular point-to-point fare. It not only saves time but also keeps away from the inconvenience of booking a ticket at every break of the journey. One can order quality food in train even after holding a circular journey ticket. All you need is a valid PNR number to order delicious food during the train journey.
Who are the Users(Target Users)?
Pilgrims
Tourists
School Students
College Students
Businessman
Family
Honeymoon Couples
How to Book circular Journey tickets?
Finalize your itinerary and Contact the Chief Reservation Supervisor/ Divisional Commercial Manager of the Division station.
The Chief Reservation Supervisor/ Divisional Commercial Manager of the Division station will give you a printed form to fill up the details of your commencing date of journey, station and end date of journey. Present this form at the booking office and collect your circular journey tickets.
This is just a ticket. The berths are not reserved yet. Quickly approach the Reservation Office to reserve your accommodation for various laps of your journey only after the Advance reservation period has commenced for that particular leg of journey. The seats will be reserved accordingly.
A concession of 3. 40% is granted for male Senior Citizens and 50% concession for female Senior Citizens is granted on the cost of the Circular Journey Tickets (upto 1000 kilometers).
Two Types of Circular Journey Tickets:
Standard circular journey tickets- In standard Circular journey tickets, there are predefined itineraries for the passengers. A passenger can go through these itineraries and select one of them as per your choice. The tickets can be issued as per the predefined itinerary.
Non-standard Circular journey tickets- These are issued as per the defined itinerary of the passenger.
Rules Applied on Circular Journey Tickets
Normal rules on Break Journey will not apply in case of Circular Journey Tickets for such circular journey which commences and completes at the same station.
Return Journey on the shortest route or on a route upto 15% longer than the shortest route will not be treated as a circular journey for this purpose.
Circular journey tickets can’t be purchased online. One can book only through offline mode only.
Circular journey tickets can be purchased only for maximum of eight stations (excluding originating/ destination station).
Fare for Circular Journey ticket — The circular journey ticket will be charged for two single journeys, each journey being taken as half of the total distance. Reservation charges for different legs of journeys, supplementary charge on super-fast, etc. will be levied extra. If a passenger travels in a higher class or by higher category of trains, he will be required to pay the difference of fares for such distance on point to point basis.
Southern Railways cannot issue standard Circular Journey Tickets. It can only issue non-standard circular tickets as per the need of passengers.
The best part of circular tickets is that it’s economical. A passenger can save to 33%-40% on the ticket price. If the journey is fragmented and tickets for each station are purchased individually, the overall cost will rise unexpectedly. So, if you’re planning for a trip to some circular locations of India, then contact the Divisional Commercial Manager of the railways at the nearest station and enjoy your journey to the exotic locations of India.
