Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), a public sector
undertaking of Ministry of Railways, operates various Tourist Trains for pilgrimage places all over the country
through Bharat Darshan Trains, Buddhist Trains and State Special Trains. In
addition, IRCTC is operating Religious Circuit Trains as announced in Rail
Budget 2014-15 for various pilgrim places.
The places covered are: Tirupathi, Rameshwaram, Madurai, Kanyakumari,
Trivandrum, Mysore, Shirdi, Nasik, Dwarka, Ujain, Somnath, Mathura, Agra,
Ajmer, Jaipur, Haridwar, Vaishno Devi, Ayodhya, Gaya, Varanasi, Nalanda,
Rajgir, Kushinagar, Lumbini, Amritsar etc.
New pilgrim areas extended are: Bijapur, Solapur, Badami, Melmaruvathur,
Vaitheeswarankoli, Thiruvenkadu, Keelamerumpallam, Thirunallar, Alangudi,
Surianarkoli, Kanjamur, Thirunageswaran, Thimngaglur, Parasnath, St. Francis
Xavier (Old Goa), Mecca Masjid (Hyderabad), Nanded Saheb, Nanak Jhira
Gurudwara, Sri Patna Sahib, Kanchipuram etc.
IRCTC has operated four
Religious Circuit Trains from October 2014 and more itineraries are uploaded on
Tourism portal (www.irctctourism.com)
for booking of the passengers.
This information was
disclosed by Hon’ble Minister of State for Railways, Shri Manoj Sinhain the
Rajya Sabha today.
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