In Uttar Pradesh, the first corporate run train of the country, Lucknow-Delhi Tejas Express was today flagged off by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from Lucknow Junction.

Our Lucknow correspondent reports that While flagging off the First IRCTC run Tejas express, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath requested IRCTC to run such trains on other routes like Lucknow to Varanansi and Lucknow to Agra to boost tourism.

He said that there was need of such train in which public including businessman, officers can go to delhi in morning and will be able to come back in late evening.

Apart from offering passengers a more comfortable and fastest ride experience between Lucknow and Delhi, IRCTC has introduced several firsts in terms of service standards, refund of money in case of delay, travel insurance up to 25 lakhs, full refund of wait listed tickets, tickets booking till 2 minutes before departure, tea-coffee vending machines, call bell and toilet indicator facilities in train.

Talking to AIR on board the tejas train, Chief Managing Director of IRCTC, M.P. Mall told that Tejas train is quite different from other trains in term of infrastructure and facilities. He said that special focus is on cleanliness and apart from providing automatic dustbins, toilets of the train will be cleaned in every 15 minutes.

The Tejas train will run 6 days in a week barring Tuesday. The commercial run of the train will start from tomorrow. Passengers can get ticket till 2 minutes before departure of train through IRCTC website and app only. There will be no tatkal quota But IRCTC will follow a ‘flexi fare’ scheme for the train tickets which are priced higher than shatabdi. Train from Lucknow will start at 6: 10 am and reach Delhi at 12:25 pm. Train from Delhi will start at 3:35 pm and reach lucknow at 10:05 PM. Wooden cutlery will be used in Tejas instead of plastic ones to reduce the usage of single use plastic.