Dikhyaa Mohanty 
The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), will be running four pilgrim special trains from Rajkot in Gujarat in February and March as per the officials.
The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) which is a subsidiary of the Indian Railways will be preparing to operate special trains for four pilgrims from Rajkot in Gujarat. Rahul Himalayan, the Group General Manager of IRCTC Western Zone informed that all the four trains will start from and stop in Rajkot and two pilgrims in special trains will begin from February.
He further added that the Dakshin Darshan Pilgrim Special Train which covers Nashik, Aurangabad, Parli, Kurnool town, Rameswaram, Madurai and Kanyakumari will be from February 14 to February 25. And the Namami Gange Pilgrim Special Train, which will run between from February 27 and March 8 and the train will cover Varanasi, Gaya, Kolkata, Ganga Sagar and Puri.
He further informed that the Bharat Darshan trains will start from March and the Kumbh Haridwar Bharat Darshan Train, which will cover Mathura, Haridwar, Rishikesh, Amritsar and Vaishnodevi will run from March 6 to March 14. The South India Tour Bharat Darshan Train will cover Rameswaram, Madurai, Kanyakumari, Trivandrum, Guruvayur, Tirupati and Mysore from March 20 to March 31.
Vayunandan Shukla, the joint General Manager of the tourism, IRCTC also stated that the Tejas train operations were discontinued in March of last year due to the Corona pandemic outbreak. The IRCTC once again resumed these services as the lockdown was eased in October last year, but due to low occupancy, the operations were suspended. But then it was determined to continue it’s functioning and the trains will be operating on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays.
Talking about the ticket prices he said that the ticket prices of these special train cover travel, food, local bus transport, Dharmashala accommodation, tour guide and housekeeping expenses.
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