Current Affairs - National - Discussion

Indian Railways has launched a special Round Trip Festival Package for 2025 to manage passenger flow during the busy festive season and encourage advance planning. The scheme offers a 20% rebate on the base fare of the return journey, provided the same set of passengers travels both ways in the same class and between the same origin-destination pair. It applies to confirmed tickets in all train classes except Flexi fare trains. Bookings open on August 14, 2025, for onward journeys between October 13–26, 2025, and return trips from November 17–December 1, 2025. The offer aims to reduce congestion and improve train utilisation.