Railway Waiting Ticket Rule: Rail travel is considered to be the most accessible means of travel in India. Every day crores of people travel by train in India. But due to heavy rush of passengers on the routes, people have to face trouble.
Now the Railways has taken a big step towards solving this problem by making a big change in the rules of waiting tickets. Actually, now railway passengers will not have to fear too many waiting tickets (Train Waiting Ticket), because the Railway Board has changed the rule. Under the new rule, the number of waiting list tickets has now been limited. This rule will apply to tickets of all classes.
Waiting tickets will not exceed 25%
In an order issued by the Railway Board, all zones have been told that now the number of tickets on the waiting list will not exceed 25 percent of the number of seats available in each class. That means, if there are 100 seats in a class, then only 25 names will be on the waiting list. This rule will be applicable normally in Sleeper, AC 1, AC 2, AC 3, Chair and Executive classes.
The rule will be applicable on all seats available for booking by common people
However, this rule will apply to those seats which are available for booking for the general public. This does not include seats reserved for Tatkal, senior citizens, women, foreign tourists and Divyang people. Apart from this, this new rule will also not apply to those tickets which are available on discount or are issued on government warrant.
That is, if a handicapped person books a ticket on concession, then this rule will not apply to him. Similarly, the new rule of railways will not apply to military warrants.
Why did the Railways change the rules?
Actually, earlier there was no limit on waiting tickets. During festivals, there were more than 400 people on the waiting list in sleeper class and more than 200 in AC. A senior official associated with the Railway Ministry said, “Passengers faced a lot of problems due to the long waiting list, especially during festivals and holidays when the demand for tickets is high. In such a situation, people whose tickets were not confirmed also boarded the train, which led to a lot of crowd.”
The railway official further said, “After the change in the railway rules, not only will the crowd in trains reduce but ticket brokers will also be curbed.”