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The number of people traveling in trains increases during summer vacations. Especially on some routes, there is a fight. Passengers have to travel by jostling. Keeping this in mind, Indian Railways is adding extra coaches in some trains including Rajdhani. This will be convenient for the passengers traveling to many states including Bihar. According to Dilip Kumar, Executive Director Information and Publicity of Railway Ministry, extra coaches will be temporarily added in six Rajdhani Express trains, due to which passengers will get more seats and the journey will be comfortable. This decision has been taken especially to reduce the crowd during summer vacations and festive season. Also, the Railways is adding extra coaches in other trains as well, so that passengers get better facilities. Additional AC 2-tier coaches will be added in these six Rajdhani Express. These are the Rajdhani trains: Bhubaneshwar-New Delhi Rajdhani Express (22811) from June 1 to June 29, New Delhi-Bhubaneshwar Rajdhani Express (22812) from June 2 to June 30, Bhubaneshwar-New Delhi Rajdhani Express (22823) from June 2 to June 30. New Delhi-Bhubaneshwar Rajdhani Express (22824) from June 3 to July 1. Bhubaneshwar-New Delhi Rajdhani Express (20817): from June 7 to June 28. New Delhi-Bhubaneshwar Rajdhani Express (20818) will run from June 8 to June 29. According to the Railway Ministry, if needed, their dates can be extended further.
Extra coaches in these trains too
Apart from Rajdhani, extra coaches are being added in other trains too, these include train number 13228/13227 Rajendra Nagar Terminal-Saharsa-Rajendra Nagar Terminal Intercity Express, train number 12203/12204 Saharsa-Amritsar-Saharsa Garib Rath Express, Bilaspur-Rewa-Bilaspur Express.
Can be extended till July
According to the Railway Ministry, the booking of trains is being continuously monitored, after a long waiting period, the date for adding extra coaches in trains can be extended further. Because people who went home return in the beginning of July, keeping their problems in mind, the date can be extended further. Railways has appealed to the passengers to check the seat availability on IRCTC website www.irctc.co.in for accurate information.