Around 3 crore people travel daily in Indian Railways. Indian Railways is the fourth largest railway system in the world. Indian Railways have seen a lot of changes in the last few years. All the facilities of the railway have been improved. The condition of stations has also improved. So the speed of trains has also increased. Despite all this, there were some rules of railway which were maintained for a long time. Which needed to change. Such was the rule regarding railway ticket cancellation charge. Due to which the railways used to earn a lot of good. But the passengers had a lot of trouble. Railways have now changed the rules regarding waiting ticket cancellation charge. Let’s know the full news.
Indian Railways has made a new change regarding ticket cancellation by giving huge facilities to passengers. Now the railway will not take separate charge on waiting and RAC ticket cancellation. In the new rules issued by the Railways, if any ticket is in waiting or RAC, no additional money will be charged as a service charge. Under the new rule, now the prescribed 60 rupees will be deducted. In such a situation, a charge of Rs 120 will be deducted in the sleeper. So the charge of ₹ 180 will be deducted if the third AC ticket is canceled. The second AC ticket will be charged for Rs 200. 200 and Rs 240 will be deducted on first AC
Railway waiting and RAC used to charge huge service and facility fee for cancellation of tickets or other tickets. In this way the railway used to get revenue of several crores. Therefore, there was loss of passengers. But now the fee has been fixed by the Railways. Sunil Kumar Khandelwal from Giridih, Jharkhand who is a social worker and RTI activist. He filed an RTI and complained of ticket cancellation charge. He had said in his complaint that the railway is earning crores of rupees only from ticket cancellation charge, due to which the passengers are facing a lot of trouble. He told that a ticket of 190 rupees was booked. Which was in waiting but after cancellation, the Railways refunded only Rs 95. The new decision of the railway will help the passengers.