CENTRAL and STATE Govts should make RAIL TRAVEL Mandatory for their employees........Accordingly a person should be deputed in RAIL BHAVAN to issue letters in case places ALPHA and place BETA are not connected by train and should suggest nearest railheads accordingly.....only then refund is given........
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Such procedure is there in civil aviation ministry...wherein..every professor goining for a world conference should go only by AIR INDIA....if not available DGCA issues a letter granting permission to travel by alternate planes...