Other interesting facts about INDB-R-Puri H/sis:
- currently in the next journey of H/s, 2 days later, INDB-BSP 1020km W/L-10 ticket is available at Rs 2007/- and INDB-SBP 1266km confirmed ticket with 10% flexifare is available at only Rs 1800/-. Most probably the SBP/BBS/Puri Quota is being used by the paxs alighting at Durg/R/BSP
* Puri-INDB only 91 tickets are sold out of 600 and for BSP/R/Durg it is RAC-8 it is suspected that many of the 91 tickets may be booked by BSP/R/Durg boarding paxs.
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more... It is an example of poor marketing and packaging by IR and all about the quota game of IR. Such practices of IR directly or indirectly help touts do their business thereby depriving naive & genuine paxs of their due reserved tickets. Paxs shall continue to suffer, touts shall thrive and IR officials, habitual of departmentalism & working the mental block of serving the interests of their zones/divisions rather than IR/ market-demand, shall remain in slumber, thereby financially bleeding IR.
* Above date is enough for IR to take simple step i.e. start a weekly special train between INDB-BPL-NGP-Durg-R-BSP and regularize it later on based on the patronage.