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NEW DELHI: More than two lakhs of passengers have booked tickets worth Rs 45.30 million to travel over the next seven days, the railways said on Thursday.
He said that 20,149 passengers traveled in the special trains on Wednesday and 25,737 will travel on 18 special trains that operate on Thursday.
The total revenue generated so far for these tickets is Rs 45,30,09,675.
With the railways starting their special passenger services on May 12 for 15 pairs of trains between Delhi and the country’s main cities, authorities said, more than 9,000 people left the national capital on board nine trains on Wednesday.
According to data accessed by PTI, of the nine Delhi trains on Wednesday, eight that departed for Howrah, Jammu, Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai, Dibrugarh, Mumbai, Ranchi and Ahmedabad were booked beyond their capacity.
Only one train, to Bihar’s capital Patna, was running at 87% of capacity, according to the data.
Of the nine trains that left for their destinations on Wednesday, the Howrah train to New Delhi, which can carry 1,126 people at a time, had a reservation for 1,377 passengers, which is 122 percent of the train’s capacity. The special New Delhi-Thiruvananthapuram train was reserved at 133 percent of capacity, and the New Delhi-Chennai train was running at 150 percent occupancy.
Similarly, the New Delhi-Jammu Tawi special ran at 109 percent occupancy; the New Delhi-Ranchi train with an occupancy of 115 percent; the New Delhi-Mumbai Central train at 117 percent; New Delhi-Ahmedabad at 102 percent and the New Delhi-Dibrugarh train was running at 133 percent occupancy.
“Overbooking does not mean that passengers are standing in the aisles, it just means that there is movement of people while the train is running. People are boarding and alighting at stop stations and there have been multiple reservations,” said one official.
Among the trains that left Delhi, the only train on Wednesday that did not run at full capacity was the New Delhi-Rajendra Nagar (Patna) train, which had a capacity of 1,239, but carried only 1,077 passengers, making it only the 87 percent. full.
Authorities said the reason behind the low train occupancy could be that Bihar has already represented more than 100 trains that took their workers home since May 1.
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