Long distance travels in India often have to be traveled. So people like to travel by train. People get complete facilities in Indian Railways. Around 3 crore passengers travel daily in Indian Railways. Indian Railways is the fourth largest railway system in the world and is becoming more modern every year.
Many people are not aware of the rules made by Indian Railways while traveling by train. There are some rules that you benefit directly and you have to do anything. One such rule of railway is ticket upgradation. In this, if you have taken a sleeper ticket, then you can transfer to AC. Let’s see how this process works.
Whenever you have booked your train ticket with the help of IRCTC. So you must have seen the option of auto upgrade given below. Let us first tell you what the ticket upgrade is. Actually this is a facility. Which runs the railway for the convenience of passengers.
In this, if you buy a sleeper ticket, it is converted to third AC after auto upgrade. Similarly, third AC becomes second AC and second AC becomes first AC. The question must be coming in your mind but how does this happen? So let us tell you what this whole process is.
First of all, let us tell you that this feature can be known as Auto Upgrade. But until you choose it yourself, you will not be able to take advantage of it. That is, if you do not click on the Auto upgrade option while booking tickets. So you are not eligible for this.
If you have clicked the auto upgrade then your ticket can be upgraded. Its process is as follows, suppose you have booked tickets in the sleeper and your ticket is in the waiting list. But if you are traveling and not getting tickets in the sleeper and the ticket is empty in the third AC compartment in this route. Then your seat will be confirmed in third AC.
That is, you booking in sleeper but you will travel in third AC. For this facility, if you fill the form and do reservation. There you will get this option at the top and if you book from IRCTC website or app, it will see you below.