Pune: Union Railway Minister for State Raosaheb Dadarao Patil Danve flagged off the Puri-Gangasagar Divya Kashi Yatra Bharat Gaurav train on Friday.
The Ministry of Railways envisioned concepts of ‘Dekho Apna Desh’ and ‘Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat’ trains to promote tourism across the country. The ministry has been operating Bharat Gaurav Tourist trains from different parts of the country to showcase India as a destination in the international as well as domestic arena. These theme-based trains have been conceptualised to showcase the rich cultural and religious heritage of Bharat to domestic tourists as well as international tourists.
The Puri-Gangasagar Divya Kashi Yatra Bharat Gaurav train is a 9-night/10-day tour package covering important religious destinations of Puri, Kolkata, Gaya, Varanasi, and Prayagraj in which the visitors will get to see the most famous temples and other pilgrimage places such as Jangannath temple in Puri, Konark Temple, Lingraj Temple in Bhubaneswar, Kali Bari in Kolkata and Ganga Sagar, Vishnu Pad Temple and Bodh Gaya in Gaya, Kashi Vishwanath temple and Ganga Ghaat in Varanasi and Triveni Sangam in Prayagraj.
The IRCTC is offering this all-inclusive tour which will encompass a comfortable rail journey in the exclusive LHB rake of Bharat Gaurav train with a composition of seven sleeper class coaches, 3 AC-3 Tier, and 1 AC- 2 tier coaches, and complete on-board and off-board meals, road transfers and sightseeing in quality buses, accommodation arrangement as per itinerary, service of tour escorts, travel insurance, on-board security, and housekeeping besides various on-board entertainment activities planned for the tourists.
