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Now the journey of the poor chariot will be even cheaper

New facilities will be available with economy class AC-3 coach

There is good news for the passengers traveling in Garib Rath. According to sources, the old coaches will now be replaced with the new AC-3 economy class coaches. At the same time, its rent will also be reduced. At the same time, passengers will now have to pay eight percent less fare. That is, if the fare is 1000 rupees, then after the installation of this coach, 80 rupees will have to be paid less.

According to sources, Railways will use these new coaches only as AC-3 economy coaches in Garib Rath trains. This will make traveling in AC class accessible at a lower fare. According to Indian Railways, 26 pairs of Garib Rath trains are running at present. At the same time, Indian Railways has 25 rakes for these trains. Railways plans to remove these rakes one by one and replace them with AC-3 economy coaches.

Construction going on in Kapurthala Rail Coach Factory
At present, 50 coaches of AC-3 economy class have been made in Kapurthala Rail Coach Factory of Railways. These coaches have been sent to different railway zones across the country. Now there is a plan to put them in different trains. Along with this, the Railways plans to make 800 AC-3 economy coaches in the coming year. These include 300 coaches of Integral Coach Factory Chennai, 285 coaches of Modern Coach Factory Raebareli and 177 coaches of Rail Coach Factory Kapurthala. There are 83 berths in AC-3 tier economy class. For this, instead of two, three berths have been kept on the side. Whereas AC-3 has 72 berths. That is, AC-3 economy class has about 15 percent more berths than AC-3. This means that the railways are going to benefit more from AC-3 economy class coaches.