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Media Kit 2017-18 www.railbandhu.in MEDIA KIT 2017-18 MOBILE APP AVAILABLE ON: INDIA’s FiRST & ONLY ON-BOARD RAILWAY MagaZINE 12 ISSUES 49 LAC+ READERS/MONTH BILINGUAL www.railbandhu.in Indian Railways’ exclusive monthly bilingual (Hindi & English) on-board magazine AVAILABLE BEST NEW TRAVEL ON-BOARD MAGAZINE RAJDHANI, SHATABDI, AWARD AT THE DURONTO, GATIMAAN HOSPITALITY INDIA AND CIRCULATION EXPLORE THE READERSHIP WORLD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL 3,75,000 AWARDS 5.9 CRORE INDIA’s ANNUALLY RECEIVED BEST STORY & BEST PHOTO AWARD ONLY FROM ABCI ON-BOARD RAILWAY IN 2016 MAGAZINE *Association of Business Communicators of India 2 MEDIA KIT 2017-18 www.railbandhu.in BRAND RAIL BANDHU A READERSHIP OF OVER 49 LAC PER MONTH, HIGHER THAN ANY TRAVEL MAGAZINE IN INDIA A SELECTION OF THE MOST COMPELLING STORIES AND A VARIETY OF GENRES TO KEEP YOU ENGAGED ON LONG JOURNEYS NEWS, VIEWS, TRAVEL AND ENTERTAINMENT FROM ALL CORNERS OF INDIA COMPILED INTO A SINGLE INTERACTIVE FORMAT A SEPARATE HINDI SECTION THAT CATERS TO A NICHE INDIAN READERSHIP THE LATEST UPDATES AND SCHEDULES FROM THE INDIAN RAILWAYS TO TAKE CARE OF EVERY TRAVEL NEED 3 MEDIA KIT 2017-18 Cat 1 State Capitals - 21 (Including 7 metros that are state capitals mentioned under Cat 3) Cat 2 Metro Cities - 4 Jammu RAIL BANDHU REACH Cat 3 State Capitals/Metro Cities - 7 Kathua Chakki bank Amritsar Cat 4 Other Cities - 93 Phagwara Shimla Jalandhar Kalka Ludhiana Chandigarh Moga Saharanpur Dehradun RAJDHANI EXPRESS Bhatinda Haridwar Muzzafarnagar Roorkee Kathgodam Connects New Delhi with other important Meerut Delhi Aligarh destinations (mostly state capitals). Tinsukia Mathura Agra Dibrugarh Etawah Alipurduar Jaipur Lucknow Kokrajhar Bongaigaon Moranhat Ajmer Kanpur Mariani Simaluguri Sawai Madhopur Gwalior Jalpaiguri Guwahati Barauni Lumding SHATABDI EXPRESS Jhansi Allahabad Ballia Patna Kishanganj Kota Diphu Abu Road Mughal Sarai Katihar Connects metro cities with other cities Varanasi Jasidih Palanpur Gaya Asansol Mehsana Adra important for tourism or business. Koderma Ahmedabad Ratlam Durgapur Nadiad Nagda Bhopal Bokaro Anand Ranchi Bankura Are day-trains, which return to the Vadodara Indore Bilaspur Raj Nandgaon Kolkata Bharuch Tatanagar Kharagpur originating station the same day I NDI A Surat Durg Balasore Gondia Valsad Raipur Bhadrakh Nagpur Cuttack Bhubaneshwar DURONTO EXPRESS Mumbai Puri Pune Kannur A long-distance non-stop train category Nilayam Kazipet Seram Warangal ARABIAN BAY OF Dharmavaram Visakhapatnam that connects several metros and major SEA Anantapur Secunderabad BENGAL Ratnagiri Hyderabad state capitals. These trains do not Vijayawada Panjim Raichur Karmali have any ticketing stops between the Madgaon originating and the destination stations, but commercial stops are being Bengaluru Udupi Mangalore Chennai introduced. Katpadi Port Blair Mysore Coimbatore Andaman and Nicobar Islands(India) GATIMAAN EXPRESS Ernakulam Dubbed as the fastest train in India, it Lakshadweep (I ndia ) Madurai connects Delhi with Agra in flat 100 mins Thiruvananthapuram 4 INDIAN OCEAN www.railbandhu.in RAIL BANDHU REACH METROS CAPITALS NORTH SOUTH EAST 26 PURI 27 KATIHAR JN 1 NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION 1 BHUBANESHWAR 1 KANPUR 1 SAI P NILAYAM 1 JASIDIH JN 28 KISHANGANJ 2 MUMBAI METROPOLITAN AREA 2 SECUNDERABAD 2 MUGHAL SARAI JN 2 DHARAMAVARAM JN 2 DURGAPUR 29 NEW ALIPURDAUR 3 KOLKATA 3 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM 3 ALLAHABAD 3 ANANTAPUR 3 ASANSOL 30 BARAUNI JN 4 CHENNAI 4 LUCKNOW 4 AGRA CANTT 4 RAICHUR 4 CUTTAK 31 BALLIA 5 BENGALURU 5 PATNA 5 LUDHIANA 5 SERAM 5 BHADRAKH 6 HYDERABAD 6 RANCHI 6 CHAKKI BANK 6 KAZIPET JN 6 BALSORE 7 AHMEDABAD 7 PANJIM 7 KATHUA 7 VIJAYAWADA JN 7 KHARAGPUR WEST 8 PUNE 8 CHANDIGARH 8 MATHURA 8 WARANGAL 8 BANKUR 9 VISAKHAPATNAM 9 JAMMU 9 ETAWAH 9 KANNPUR 9 ADRA 1 GONDIA JN 10 JAIPUR 10 BHOPAL 10 ALIGARH 10 MANGALORE JN 10 KODERMA 2 MAHESANA JN 11 INDORE 11 GUWAHATI 11 PHAGWARA 11 UDUPI 11 TATA NAGAR 3 PALANPUR JN 12 SHIMLA 12 JALANDHAR 12 YESVANTPUR 12 BOKARO STL 4 ABU ROAD 13 DEHRADUN 13 MEERUT 13 ERANAKULAM 13 TINSUKIA 5 AJMER JN 14 RAIPUR 14 MUZZAFARNAGAR 14 COIMBATORE 14 MARIANI 6 NAGPUR 15 SAHARANPUR 15 KATPADI 15 DIPHU 7 SURAT 16 ROORKEE 16 MYSURU 16 LUMDING 8 VADODARA JN 17 HARIDWAR 17 MADURAI 17 NEW BONGAIGAON 9 KOTA JN 18 VARANASI 18 KOKRAJHAR 10 VALSAD TRAVELS 19 JHANSI 19 NEW JALPAIGURI 11 BHARUCH JN CENTRAL TO 20 AMRITSAR 20 GAYA 12 SAWAI MADHOPUR 21 KALKA 1 DURG 21 DIBRUGARH 13 RATNAGIRI 22 KATHGODAM 2 RAJ NANDGAON 22 MORANHAT 14 MADGAON 119 23 MOGA 3 GWALIOR 23 SIMALUGURI JN 15 ANAND CITIES 24 BHATINDA 4 NAGDA JN 24 KOKRAJHAR 16 NADIAD 5 RATLAM JN 25 BILASPUR JN 17 KARMALI 5 MEDIA KIT 2017-18 www.railbandhu.in RAIL BANDHU REACH 1 NEW DELHI-SEALDAH-NEW DELHI 1 MUMBAI CST-KARMALI-MUMBAI CST 2 SEALDAH-ANAND VIHAR (DELHI)-SEALDAH 2 NEW DELHI-HABIBGANJ (BHOPAL)-NEW DELHI 3 MUMBAI CST-PATNA-MUMBAI CST 3 NEW DELHI-LUCKNOW-NEW DELHI 4 GUWAHATI-DIBRUGARH-GUWAHATI 4 NEW DELHI-KALKA-NEW DELHI 5 NEW DELHI-BARAUNI-NEW DELHI 5 CHENNAI-MYSURU-CHENNAI 6 BANDRA TERMINUS-H NIZAMUDDIN-BANDRA TERMINUS 6 MUMBAI CST-AHMEDABAD-MUMBAI CST 7 H NIZAMMUDDIN-ALLAHABAD-H NIZAMMUDDIN 7 NEW DELHI-AMRITSAR-NEW DELHI 8 MUMBAI CST-LUCKNOW-MUMBAI CST 8 NEW DELHI-AJMER-NEW DELHI 9 AHMEDABAD-DELHI S ROHILLA-AHMEDABAD 9 NEW DELHI-DEHRADUN -NEW DELHI 10 NEW DELHI-DIBRUGARH-NEW DELHI 10 HOWRAH-RANCHI-HOWRAH 11 NEW DELHI-HOWRAH-NEW DELHI 11 PUNE-SECUNDERABAD-PUNE 12 NEW DELHI-RAJENDRA NAGAR-NEW DELHI 12 CHENNAI-BENGALURU-CHENNAI RAJDHANI EXPress 13 NEW DELHI-JAMMU TAWI-NEW DELHI SHATABDI EXPress 13 NEW DELHI-KANPUR-NEW DELHI 14 H NIZAMMUDDIN-TRIVANDRUM-H NIZAMUDDIN 14 JAIPUR-AGRA FORT-JAIPUR 15 CHENNAI-H NIZAMUDDIN-CHENNAI 15 NEW DELHI-LUDHIANA-NEW DELHI 16 H NIZAMMUDDIN-SECUNDERABAD-H NIZAMMUDDIN 16 ANAND VIHAR (DELHI)-KATHGODAM-ANAND VIHAR(DELHI) 17 NEW DELHI-RANCHI-NEW DELHI 17 HOWRAH-NEW JALPAIGURI-HOWRAH 18 NEW DELHI-BILASPUR-NEW DELHI 18 NEW DELHI-MOGA-NEW DELHI 19 NEW DELHI-MUMBAI CENTRAL-NEW DELHI 19 NEW DELHI-CHANDIGARH-NEW DELHI 20 MUMBAI CST-H NIZAMUDDIN-MUMBAI CST 20 NEW DELHI-BHATINDA-NEW DELHI 21 NEW DELHI-AHMEDABAD-NEW DELHI 21 CHENNAI-COIMBATORE-CHENNAI 22 CHENNAI-TRIVANDRUM-CHENNAI 22 HOWRAH-PURI-HOWRAH 23 BENGALURU-H NIZAMUDDIN-BENGALURU 23 JAIPUR-DELHI-JAIPUR 24 NEW DELHI-BHUBANESWAR-NEW DELHI 25 H NIZAMMUDDIN-MADGOAN-H NIZAMMUDDIN 6 MEDIA KIT 2017-18 www.railbandhu.in RAIL BANDHU REACH 1 SHALIMAR-PATNA-SHALIMAR- 27 H NIZAMMUDDIN-ERNAKULAM-H NIZAMMUDDIN 2 SEALDAH-PURISEALDAH 28 H NIZAMMUDDIN-SECUNDERABAD-H NIZAMMUDDIN 3 CHENNAI-MADURAI-CHENNAI 29 MUMBAI CST-NAGPUR-MUMBAI CST 4 NEW DELHI-SEALDAH-NEW DELHI 30 ALLAHABAD-LOKMANYA TILAK-ALLAHABAD 5 ANAND VIHAR (DELHI)-SEALDAH -ANAND VIHAR (DELHI) 31 PUNE-AHMEDABAD-PUNE 6 PATNA-MUMBAI CST -PATNA 32 HOWRAH-DIGHA FLAG STATION-HOWRAH 7 NEW DELHI-BARAUNI -NEW DELHI 33 PURI-SEALDAH-PURI 8 BANDRA T-H NIZAMUDDIN-BANDRA T 34 VISAKHAPATNAM-SECUNDERABAD-VISAKHAPATNAM 9 MUMBAI CST-LUCKNOW-MUMBAI CST 35 CHENNAI-MADURAI-CHENNAI 10 AHMEDABAD-DELHI S ROHILLA-AHMEDABAD 36 CHENNAI-TRIVANDRUM-CHENNAI 11 DELHI S ROHILLA-YESVANTPUR-DELHI S ROHILLA 37 MUMBAI CST-NEW DELHI-MUMBAI CST 12 SECUNDERABAD-LOKMANYA TILAK-SECUNDERABAD 38 H NIZAMMUDDIN-AJMER-H NIZAMMUDDIN 13 PUNE-HOWRAH-PUNE 39 SHALIMAR-PATNA-SHALIMAR DURONTO EXPress 14 LOKMANYA TILAK-ERNAKULAM-LOKMANYA TILAK 40 MUMBAI CST-PATNA-MUMBAI CST 15 MUMBAI CST-INDORE-MUMBAI CST 41 KALKA-SHIMLA-KALKA 16 MUMBAI CST-JAIPUR-MUMBAI CST 17 HOWRAH-YESVANTPUR-HOWRAH 18 NEW DELHI-SEALDAH-NEW DELHI 19 MUMBAI CST-HOWRAH -MUMBAI CST 20 PUNE-H NIZAMUDDIN-PUNE GATIMAAN EXPress 21 DELHI S ROHILLA-JAMMU TAWI-DELHI S ROHILLA 22 MUMBAI CST-AHMEDABAD-MUMBAI CST 1 H NIZAMMUDDIN-AGRA CANTT 23 CHENNAI-H NIZAMUDDIN-CHENNAI 24 NEW DELHI-HOWRAH-NEW DELHI 25 NEW DELHI-ALLAHABAD-NEW DELHI 26 NEW DELHI-BHUBANESHWAR-NEW DELHI 7 MEDIA KIT 2017-18 www.railbandhu.in WHY ADVERTISE IN RAIL baNDHU? RAIL BANDHU is available on-board all full-service trains 119 49 LAC+ (Rajdhani+Shatabdi + CITIES, TOWNS PASSENGERS EVERY 100% MONTH, AS AGAINST Duronto+ Gatimaan) SERVICED DAILY, 66 LAC FLYERS FULL-SERVICE TRAINS IN ALL AIRLINES FULLY AIR CONDITIONED, WITH MEAL COMPARED TO COMBINED IN INDIA SERVICES OFFERED ON-BOARD 75 AIRPORTS SERVICED BY ALL AIRLINES 180 COMBINED TRAINS 52% EVERY DAY 21 25 RAJDHANI STATE CAPITALS ARE SEC A (A1, A2) 23 SHATABDI 41 DURONTO 1 GATIMAN SERVICED DAILY REACH BOTH UP & DOWN 8 MEDIA KIT 2017-18 www.railbandhu.in Editorial mission In keeping with the spirit of India, Rail Bandhu endeavours to bring to its readers a selection of stories that appeals to members of all age groups and backgrounds. Rooted in current national interest, the articles and design of the magazine will not only be information-packed but also reader-friendly, lucid and interactive to keep readers engaged on long journeys and help them plan their holidays and travels. From experiential travel narratives to expert tips and opinion on the latest trends in leisure, luxury and entertainment, Rail Bandhu will involve the best writers, photographers and personalities in its format to tackle a wide range of subjects to keep the reader absorbed and looking forward to more. 9 www.railbandhu.in INTERESTING facTS ABOUT INDIAN RAILWAYS It is the largest rail network , with in Asia 1,15,000 km Four sites of Indian Railways The of track length and 12,617 New Delhi Railway - Darjeeling Himalayan trains, connecting more than 7,172 Station has secured a place Railway, Mumbai CST stations, transporting in the Guinness Book Building, Neelgiri Mountain 23 LAC+ passengers daily – of Records for having the Railway and Kalka-Shimla equal to moving Australia’s world’s largest Railway - have been declared population Route Relay UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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