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The Bharat Gaurav scheme launched by Railways for private players

Objective

• To promote and attract tourism business
• Private players and run on theme-based circuits will operate it.
• Any entity can run these trains, including state governments, it is implied that the policy is targeted at tour operators.

What is the Bharat Gaurav policy?

• According to the Bharat Gaurav policy, any operator or service provider, or virtually anyone, can lease trains from Indian Railways to run on a theme-based circuit as a special tourism package.
• The tenure of the arrangement is a minimum of two years and maximum of the codal life of the coach.
• The operator has the freedom to decide the route, the halts, the services provided, and, most importantly, the tariff.
• The IRCTC runs such theme-based tourist trains, for instance, the Ramayana Express, which goes on a tour of several places connected to Lord Ram.