Indian Railways desperately needs more trains as 2.70 crore tickets stuck on waiting list
India | May 08, 2023, 04:54 PM ISTThe inability to provide confirmed tickets to passengers has been a recurrent problem with the national transporter.
The inability to provide confirmed tickets to passengers has been a recurrent problem with the national transporter.
According to railway officials, passengers who have booked tickets online and over the counter will be given a refund of the extra amount for the pre-booked tickets.
IRCTC news: The request to transfer a confirmed train ticket should be raised at least 24 hours prior to the departure time.
The changes that have been notified stand applicable for both -- the IRCTC website and the app.
The IRCTC has decided to modify the booking codes – capitalized abbreviations used by passengers while booking a ticket. The codes represent various coaches available in the Indian Railway Network.
In view of the violent clashes across several parts of the national capital during the farmers' tractor rally on Tuesday, the Northern Railway said that the passengers who cannot reach stations are requested to apply for full refund of all trains departing from all the stations in Delhi.
In a decision that would bring smiles on the faces of the rail passengers, the Indian Railways on Thursday decided to extend the time of cancellation of reserved train tickets booked between March 21 to July 31 last year from the ticket reservation counter from six months to nine months.
The Indian Railways on Sunday refuted claims about issuance of unreserved tickets, saying that there has been no change in policy to run all Express trains, including festival specials and clone specials, as fully reserved trains only, by issuing reserved tickets for second class coaches coaches and passenger portion of SLRs coach.
To provide more convenience to the passengers, the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has introduced new rules in the train ticket booking related to the second reservation chart.
In a bid to provide relief to passengers, the Indian Railways has allowed booking and cancellation of tickets till five minutes before a train leaves the station.
Amazon India on Wednesday said it has partnered with Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) to provide their customers with the facility to book reserved train tickets on its platform.
The railways said it has refunded Rs 1,885 crore to passengers who booked tickets during the lockdown period and whose tickets were cancelled.
Railways will start advance booking for up to 120 days, including tatkal, current reservations for 230 trains from May 31, 2020 onwards. From June 1, the additional 200 trains will also resume services.
The Railway Protection Force (RPF) has arrested 14 people, including eight IRCTC agents, for allegedly illegally selling e-tickets for special trains running on the Rajdhani route which began operations on May 12.
Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday informed that train ticket bookings at railway station countries will restart in the next 2-3 days for which they are developing a protocol. He said that railways will also announce resumption of services of some more trains.
Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said that booking of train tickets will resume at around 1.7 lakh common service centres from tomorrow across the country. Bookings will also resume at counters of different stations in the next 2-3 days. We are developing a protocol in this regard.
IRCTC has started taking the destination address of all passengers who are booking tickets with effect from May 13 (Wednesday). Railways has said that this new addition of passengers information while booking tickets is being done in order to help it for contact tracing.
Indian Railways on Wednesday announced to cancel all train ticket bookings made earlier for journeys till June 30.
The Indian Railways has resumed the booking of tickets. The resumption of the train services comes as India enters the last week of the 54-day coronavirus lockdown and as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to hold a video conference with chief ministers, which is likely to focus on a strategy for a phased exit from the shutdown.
More than 60 percent of trains tickets have been canceled in March so far due to the coronavirus outbreak, Railway officials informed a Parliamentary panel on Wednesday.
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