Now there is a good news for people who wish to avail five-week break from work with family during Diwali and Chhath vacations as Railways has launched 20 per cent rebate on base fare of return journey for a round trip package to spread out crowd.
In order to avoid rush, ensure hassle free booking as well as to facilitate passengers and redistribute the peak traffic for larger range during peak festival seasons and ensure both side utilization of trains including special trains, it has been decided to formulate an experimental scheme named as Round Trip Package for festival rush on discounted fare, the Ministry of Railways said on Saturday.
This scheme will be applicable for those passengers who chooses their return journey during the prescribed period.
Under this scheme, rebates shall be applicable when booked for both onward and return journey for the same set of passengers.
Passenger details of return journey will be same as of onward journey.
Booking start date will be 14.08.2025 for the ARP date 13th October 2025. Onward ticket shall be booked first for the train start date between 13th October 2025 and 26th October 2025 and subsequently return journey ticket will be booked by using connecting journey feature for the train start date between 17th November and 1st December 2025.
Advance reservation period will not be applicable for booking of return journey.
The above booking will be permissible only for confirmed tickets in both directions.
Total rebates of 20 per cent will be granted on base fare of return journey only.
Booking under this scheme will be for the same class and same O-D pair for both onward and return journey.
No refund of fare will be permissible for the tickets booked under this scheme.
The above scheme will be allowed for all classes and in all trains including special trains (Trains on demand) except trains having Flexi fare.
No modification will be allowed on these ticket in either of the journey.
No discounts, Rail travel coupons, Voucher based bookings, Passes or PTOs etc will be admissible during return journey booking on concessional fare.
Both onward and return journey tickets must be booked using the same mode either:
Internet (online) booking, or counter booking at reservation offices.
No additional fare collection will be performed if any arises during charting for these PNRs.