Vande Bharat Train Rules: Be it Vande Bharat Express or Shatabdi train, these people will be given reserved seats from now on, and also reserved seats will be given for their companions.
Ever since the Vande Bharat Express started running in India, people are seeing a different craze for it. There are many people who have made Vande Bharat Express their first option leaving other trains. Let us inform, so far 14 Vande Bharat Express have been started in the country, plans are being made to bring many more Vande Bharat Express in the coming time.
You must be aware of many rules of Vande Bharat, but recently a new rule has been implemented, hearing which Divyangjan may be happy. Yes, seats are reserved for Divyang in Vande Bharat Express and Shatabdi trains. Let us tell you about this rule.
Divyang people will be given seats in this train
If you are thinking that Vande Bharat Express has just started, how is it possible, then this news is absolutely correct. From now onwards, reserved seats will be given to differently-abled passengers in Vande Bharat with AC chair car. In this, you will be able to travel comfortably with your colleague, let us tell you, two seats in the train will be reserved in advance. This facility will be given to Divyangs in the first Vande Bharat running between Delhi to Varanasi, according to the information, till now this facility was not being given to Divyang people in this train.
Reserved seats will also be available in these trains
Also, in trains having Reserved Secondary Sitting (2S) coaches, seats will also be reserved for Divyangs. If there are more than two coaches in AC chair category, two seats will be reserved in advance. Not only this, even in trains with AC three economy coaches, two seats will be given to the disabled. Divyangs will also get four berths in SLRD coach of Garib Rath Express.
14 Vande Bharat is running in the country
14 Vande Bharats are running in the country. These include New Delhi-Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra, New Delhi-Amb Adaura, Chennai-Mysore, New Delhi-Varanasi, Gandhinagar-Mumbai, Mumbai-Shirdi, Delhi-Bhopal Secunderabad-Tirupati, Nagpur-Bilaspur, Howrah-New Jalpaiguri, Secunderabad Visakhapatnam, Mumbai-Solapur, Chennai-Coimbatore and Delhi-Ajmer are included in this list.
Some important rules of Vande Bharat Express
- There is no senior citizen/Divyang/Journalist quota option in this train, as well as child fare is also charged in the train. The quota available in this train is General and Tatkal.
- Vande Bharat runs from Delhi to Varanasi 5 days a week on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. There are many other such Vande Bharats which run for 5 or 6 days.
- Passengers can also go through the IRCTC e-ticketing website or Indian Railways ticket counters or ticket booking offices to have the option of opting or not opting for meal facilities at the time of ticket booking.
- According to IRCTC, if a passenger does not opt for the catering service in advance and later decides to buy it onboard, then apart from the catering charges, you will have to pay Rs 50 extra for each service.
