This made it very easy for crores of elderly people to travel by train. Especially those senior citizens got a lot of relief, who have to live on pension money after retirement. The question is whether Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will announce discounts on railway tickets to senior citizens again on February 1?

The government stopped the discount in March 2020

The government stopped giving discounts on train tickets to senior citizens in March 2020. Since then, they have to pay the full price of the train ticket. Organizations representing senior citizens are constantly demanding the government to resume discounts on train tickets. Every year this demand increases before the Union Budget. But , the government has not fulfilled this demand of the elderly in the last 5 years. This time the elderly are hopeful that their demand will be fulfilled.

Female senior citizens used to get 50% discount

Covid struck in March 2020. At the end of March, the government announced a lockdown. The wheels of trains stopped. With this, the discount that senior citizens used to get on train tickets stopped. Earlier, female senior citizens used to get a 50 percent discount on train tickets. Male and transgender senior citizens used to get a 40 percent discount. After the discount ended, senior citizens also have to pay the same price for train tickets as common people pay.

Passengers get 55% discount on train tickets

According to the rules of the Railways, men and transgenders aged 60 years and above are considered senior citizens. Women aged 50 years and above are considered senior citizens. Sources related to the Railways say that by ending the discount on train tickets for senior citizens, the income of the Railways has increased significantly. Last year, in response to the question of resuming the discount on train tickets for the elderly, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav had said that the government already gives 55 percent discount to the people on train tickets. This indicated that the government is not interested in resuming the discount on train tickets for the elderly.

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The exemption given to senior citizens on train tickets can be restored once again. Men of 60 years or more and women of 58 years or more used to get the benefit of huge discount in train tickets from the Railways, which can be started again.

The committee urged the parliamentary committee of Indian Railways has urged the government to restore the exemption from the railway side. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Railways, headed by Bharatiya Janata Party MP Radha Mohan Singh, has urged the Railway Ministry to sympathetically consider restoring the concession given to senior citizens while traveling in trains.

Information given to the news agency

According to the news agency PTI, the committee said that according to the information given by the Railways, the condition of Corona has become normal. The committee had also expressed this desire in its 12th Action Taken Report (17th Lok Sabha) on Passenger Reservation System. This can be considered at least in sleeper class and third ac class so that weak and really needy citizens can avail this facility.

Earlier, before March 2020, railways used to give 50 percent discount on fare to women and 40 percent discount to men for traveling by rail in all classes in case of senior citizens. The minimum age limit for elderly women to get this exemption from the Railways was 58 years and for men was 60 years, but after the Corona period, all kinds of concessions given to them have been abolished.

Ashwini Vaishnav had given this information.

In December, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav has said that the concessions given to senior citizens in the Railways will not be restored again. The bill of pension and salary from the Railways has become very high. Along with this, Indian Railways had given a subsidy of Rs 59000 crore for passenger related services.

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