Advance train ticket sale for Eid begins

Bangladesh Railway started selling advance train tickets on Tuesday for the home-bound people on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha. The ticket sale started at Kamalapur railway station in the city around 9.00am. Several hundred people were seen waiting in long queues for collecting tickets for the Eid journey on September 20. Railways Minister Mujibul Haque during his visit to Kamalapur railway station in the morning said train journey schedules will be normal during Eid and the authorities concerned have been asked to maintain the schedules during the period. Some 138 coaches from the workshop will be added to the existing ones while a total of 224 locomotives will be in operation across the country every day ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, he said. The minister added law enforcers and mobile court have been deployed to check black marketing of tickets. The tickets for September 21 will be sold on September 16, tickets for September 22 on September 17, tickets for September 23 on September 18 and tickets for September 24 will be available at Dhaka and Chittagong stations on September 19, according to railway official sources. The tickets for return journey from September 27 to October 1 will be sold from September 23 to September 27 and those will be available at Rajshahi, Khulna, Rangpur, Dinajpur and Lalmonirhat stations, said officials, according to a news agency.

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