Railway Ticket Cancellation Charges: Railways used to earn a lot from ticket cancellation. Passengers suffered huge losses. But now Railways has changed the rules regarding waiting ticket cancellation charges.
Railway Ticket Cancellation Charges: Around 3 crore people travel in Indian Railways every day. Indian Railways is the fourth largest railway system in the world. There have been many changes in Indian Railways in the last few years. All the facilities of railways have improved. The condition of the stations has also improved. So the speed of trains has also increased.
Despite all this, there were some rules of Railways which were in practice for a long time. Which needed to be changed. There was a similar rule regarding charges on railway ticket cancellation. Due to which the Railways earned a lot. But the passengers suffered a lot. Railways has now changed the rules regarding waiting ticket cancellation charges. Let us know the complete news.
Changes made in ticket cancellation charges
Indian Railways has made a new change regarding ticket cancellation, giving great convenience to the passengers. Now there will be no separate charge from the Railways for waiting and RAC ticket cancellation. According to the new rules issued by the Railways, if a ticket is in waiting list or in RAC, then no extra rupees will be charged as service charge.
Under the new rules, the fixed amount of ₹60 will now be deducted. Talking about which, a charge of ₹ 120 will be deducted in sleeper. So, on cancellation of Third AC ticket, a charge of ₹ 180 will be deducted. On cancellation of second AC ticket, a charge of Rs 200 will be deducted. Rs 200 will be deducted while first AC will cost Rs 240.
Earlier service charge was taken
Earlier, Railways was charging huge amount as service charge and convenience fee on waiting list and RAC tickets or on cancellation of other tickets. Railways used to earn several crores in revenue just like this. So there was loss of passengers. But now the charges have been fixed by the Railways.
Decision taken after RTI
Sunil Kumar Khandelwal from Giridih, Jharkhand who is a social worker and RTI activist. He had filed an RTI and complained about the ticket cancellation charge. He had said in his complaint that Railways is earning crores of rupees only from ticket cancellation charges.
Due to which passengers are suffering a lot of loss. He told that a ticket worth Rs 190 was booked. Which was in waiting but after cancellation the Railways returned only Rs 95 as refund. The new decision of Railways will provide convenience to the passengers.
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