During the festival period like Pongal, Depavali and Christmas, people are struggling to get the train tickets for their native place. Even though people are waiting day and night, once the advance booking option is commenced, the tickets are getting booked in a seconds. Even though many special trains are leaded, the same demand will also be raised there. Booking tickets via takal option, until the tickets will be in hand it will give an ultimate tension to people. Hence to solve this problem, a super AC Premium train is going get function and the advance booking will be only through online. During Christmas and New Year festival season, this Premium train is activated for Delhi- Mumbai route.
The third tier AC coach ticket cost Rs. 12, 000 and
the Second tier AC coach ticket cost Rs. 17, 000. This cost is seven times
higher than the normal rate and hence it is yielding about 43 percent profit
for the government. Since the summer holiday will be commencing in the next few
months, the special premium trains will be planned to get introduced for Goa
and Bikaner routes. Tickets booked in these train will not be get cancelled and
people will not get the refund amount.