Indian Railway: Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation i.e. IRCTC provides different packages from trains to flights to visit important destinations in the country and abroad. Now the company is offering tour packages to people to visit 7 Jyotirlingas via train and the special thing is that passengers can pay the expenses in installments or through EMI.
The tour will start from April 11
IRCTC also operates tour packages for visiting various religious places in the country through Bharat Gaurav Train. Now the company is operating a tour package for visiting 7 Jyotirlingas by this tourist train, which will start from April 11 and will run till April 22, 2025. This tour package is for 11 nights and 12 days.
You can visit these Jyotirlingas
Under this tour package, travellers can visit Mahakaleshwar and Omkareshwar Jyotirlingas in Ujjain, Somnath and Nageshwar Jyotirlingas in Gujarat, Dwarkadhish Temple, Bhet Dwarka and Signature Bridge, Tours will be organised to visit the Trayambakeshwar Jyotirlinga, Panchvati and Kalaram Temple in Nashik, Bhimashankar Jyotirlinga in Pune, Ghrishneshwar Jyotirlinga in Aurangabad and the local temple. The facility of this train will be available in Yoganagari Rishikesh, Haridwar, Moradabad, Bareilly, Shahjahanpur, Hardoi, Lucknow, Kanpur, Orai, Jhansi, Lalitpur.
This much is spent on different packages
The comfort category package of this trip includes AC rooms of deluxe hotels and other facilities and the package for one person is Rs 52200. Whereas the standard category package includes AC rooms of budget hotels and other services.The cost of which is Rs 39550 per person. In the third sleeper category package, one person will have to pay Rs 23200 with non-AC rooms.
EMI facility is also available
The special thing is that the travellers can pay the expenses incurred on this tour package through easy EMI. IRCTC is making arrangements for easy EMI payment of Rs 816 per month through various banks for the convenience of the people in this journey. Its purpose is that people of low income group can also avail maximum benefit of this facility. LTC facility is available in this.
This is the process of booking
Now the question arises that how will the booking be done to avail this facility and to visit Jyotirlingas? So let us tell you that Ajit Kumar Sinha, Chief Regional Manager of IRCTC Northern Region, while giving information, said The booking of this package will be done on ‘first come first serve’ basis. He said that for booking the trip, one can visit the IRCTC office located at Paryatan Bhawan, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow or can also book online from IRCTC website www.irctctourism.com.