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Launch from June 26

Advance train tickets sale begins

 New Nation
 Published: 12:00 AM, 23 June 2016  Updated: 3:44 PM, 24 September 2022
Thousands of passengers thronged the Kamalapur Railway Station to buy advance tickets for enjoying the longest ever Eid-ul-Fitr hold with their dear and near ones at their village homes. This photo was taken on Wednesday.
Thousands of passengers thronged the Kamalapur Railway Station to buy advance tickets for enjoying the longest ever Eid-ul-Fitr hold with their dear and near ones at their village homes. This photo was taken on Wednesday.

M M Jasim :Bangladesh Railway (BR) authorities began selling advance train tickets from yesterday to ensure hassle-free journey for the Eid passengers. Like past, holidaymakers had to queue since Tuesday night at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka.The sale of tickets began at Kamalapur and Chittagong Railway Stations from 8am on Wednesday.This year the sale of the train tickets was very smooth and no one faced any trouble to collect the tickets on the first day. Shamsul Alam waited in front of the counter for tickets to go to Chittagong since early hours of Wednesday.After five hours, he finally got tickets for the Turna Nishita Express train at 8:30am. “I feel relieved. There is no more tension,” Shamsul told The New Nation. Meanwhile, the BR has already taken special initiative to ease the movement of the passengers as 14 special trains have been added to the existing ones. The railway authorities have cancelled Eid leave of its officials and employees, the BR office sources said. The sale will continue till June 26 and a passenger will be able to buy maximum four tickets at a time.Return tickets will be distributed on July 4, 5 and 8 for July 8, 9 and 12 respectively while tickets of July 7 will be available on July 10 and 11.Manager of the station, Shitangshu Chakravarty, told this reporter that they would be selling 18,000 tickets everyday for 33 destinations during the time of Eid travel sales.Large queues could be seen in front of all the 23 counters. The authorities this year have arranged a separate counter for women, he said. Additional security forces have been deployed at the station. Kamalapur Station’s Railway Police OC Abdul Majid said that they have detained 10 people for suspected involvement in black-marketing of tickets.Meanwhile, the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) will start the selling of advance tickets for the first class passengers from June 26 (Sunday). There is no schedule time to collect the tickets. Assistant Director of BIWTA Joynal Abedin said the BIWTA would monitor the overall system of the launches during the Eid time. No irregularities would be tolerated. And even the launch owners have been asked to follow the rules and regulations of the BIWTA. No launch will be allowed to carry over loaded passengers, he said. Advance sale of bus tickets kicked off in the capital on Monday morning. But many of the people alleged that they did not get advance tickets from the bus counters. “I went to collect the tickets for June 2 for going to Kurigram at Gabtali Bus Stand, but came back from there with empty hands,” Ashraful Alam said.