If you also travel by train, then this news is for you. When you buy a train ticket, you get many facilities from Indian Railways for free with tickets. However, many railway passengers do not know about these facilities. Today we will tell through this article which facilities provide for free to the Indian Railways passengers.
1. Medical help If you are traveling in the train and your health suddenly deteriorates, then do not panic, Indian Railways provides free treatment for you. For this, you have to tell the train guard or attendant present in the coach. He will immediately contact the railway medical staff and give you first aid for free. If for some reason you are not getting this facility, then you can also file a complaint. Railways takes care of the health and safety of every passenger.
2. If you are traveling by train to keep goods at the station and for some reason you cannot take your goods everywhere, then you can keep your goods in the railway station locker room. This locker room takes place at every major railway station. Let me tell you that you can keep your luggage absolutely free in the station locker. That too for a month. To avail this facility, you must have a confirmed ticket and identity card of that day. After depositing the goods, the railway gives a receipt, so that you can remove the goods whenever you want.
3. Travel Insurance: When you book online train tickets, you get a small option to add travel insurance. For this, you will have to spend only 45 paise. This small expenditure gives you and your family a cover of up to Rs 10 lakh. If there is any kind of accident during the journey, such as train accident, serious injury, death or any kind of untoward incident, then compensation will be given by the Indian Railways.
4. Free facility of waiting hall: If your train is late or you have reached the station ahead of time, then you will not need to sit on the platform for hours. Because the Indian railway also provides free seating facility to passengers along with tickets in the waiting hall. Every major station has non-AC and AC waiting halls. In which you get essential facilities like toilets and charging points. AC waiting halls are especially for travelers whose tickets are AC.
5. Pillow, sheets and blankets: Indian Railways provides free pillows, sheets and blankets to their AC coach passengers on their berths. If for some reason you do not get all these things in AC coach, then you can take advantage of them by showing your train ticket.
6. Free food: If you travel in premium trains like Rajdhani, Duronto and Shatabdi, IRCTC provides you free food. Not only this, if the train is delayed for two or more hours due to some reason, then the passengers are given free food in the railway canteen.
7. You can order food on your seat. If your train does not have the facility to eat, then there is no need to worry. Now you can order the hot food of your choice sitting on your seat, that too in an easy way. For this, IRCTC has created a special website and app. www.ecatering.irct.co.in. All you have to do is go to this portal. Just have to enter. After this you have to choose the name of the station where you want to eat. As soon as you choose the station, the list of registered restaurants will appear in front of you.
Then you can see the restaurant of your choice and its menu. Now choose whatever food you like, order and pay. As soon as the train reaches that station, the delivery boy will come to your coach and give food to your seat. This service is available from 6 am to 10 pm. But for this you must have a confirmed ticket. You know that this facility is not free, but you have to pay for it.
