20% Off Return Train Tickets Diwali 2025: Railways has brought a bang offer for its passengers, under this offer you will get to book up to 20 percent holiday tickets. Railways has started this offer for Chhath and Diwali for its trusted passengers.
Indian Railway Festival Season Ticket Booking Offer: Good News has brought the railway for passengers traveling by train. In all festivals including the upcoming Chhath and Diwali, the Ministry of Railways has announced a new experimental 'Round Trip for Festival Rush' scheme to control the crowd of passengers and make the journey easier. According to a report from the Moneycontrol website, according to the circular issued by the Railway Board on August 8, 2025, in this plan, passengers book confirmed tickets for the same class, the same origin and destination for the journey on both sides, then they will get a 20 percent discount on the ticket on the return journey. Let us understand more about this plan in detail how to take advantage of it.
Booking process will start from August 14
According to the news, booking of train tickets will start from August 14 under the 'Round Trip for Festival Rush' scheme. In this, you will have to travel between October 13 to October 26, 2025. The return journey will be evil through the beat connecting journey feature from 17 November to 1 December 2025. The advance reservation period will not be applicable on returns ticket booking. Explain that this scheme will be applicable to all classes and trains, in addition to the trains in which the flexi-fare system is applicable, and will be valid only for confirmed tickets.
What to do passengers to get a discount on ticket?
To get a discount on the ticket, the passenger will have to book the onward ticket first and then book a return ticket from the connecting journey feature for that class and O-D pair. The benefit of this scheme is available both online and counter. After taking tickets on this scheme, no refund, correction or other discount will be given in tickets.
Railways is redeveloping stations
Under the Amrit Bharat Scheme, 1300 railway stations are being redeveloped across the country, in which 104 work has been completed. The objective of this scheme is to provide better facilities to the passengers by making the station better and modern in the entire rail network.
