Indian Railway Rules: The IRCTC has indicated that older folks will now receive confirmed lower berths

 Indian Railway Rules: The IRCTC has indicated that older folks will now receive confirmed lower berths

Indian Railways: Senior persons can take advantage of a variety of amenities. They are given preference for lower berths in this case. Nonetheless, they frequently do not receive inferior berth. Tell us how you plan to acquire a ticket confirmation.

Indian Railways: These are some helpful updates for rail travellers. Elderly folks are given preference for lower berths on trains. Yet this doesn't always happen. While purchasing tickets, senior persons frequently do not receive lower berths despite requests that they be given precedence. Senior citizens experience issues because of this. You no longer need to be concerned, though, as Railways has explained how to obtain a lower berth.

Seniors will be given a lower berth

In fact, a passenger asked the Indian Railways this question a few days ago on Twitter and suggested that it be rectified. The passenger asks, "What is the rationale of running seat allotment," writing "I had booked lower berth priority tickets for three senior persons, then there were 102 berths remaining, but they were assigned middle berth, upper berth." The passenger also tags Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav. provided with a side lower berth. You ought to fix it.

What was the IRCTC's response?

IRCTC has responded to the passenger's query on Twitter with an explanation. IRCTC stated that- Sir, Lower Berth/Senior Citizen Quota Berth is the lower berth reserved only for women aged 60 years and above, 45 years and above, when they are single or two passengers (same ticket going on). under the norms). IRCTC added that the system will not take into account a request if there are more than two senior citizens or if one senior citizen is there but the other is not.

Tickets for concessions were also suspended

In 2020, Indian Railways stopped offering discounted tickets to a number of groups of passengers, including seniors, in an effort to reduce travel that wasn't absolutely necessary in light of the coronavirus pandemic. Trains added that senior citizen discounts had been eliminated because they posed the biggest risk for COVID-19 virus transmission and fatality.

In an exceptional situation, it has been decided not to adopt any Concessional Unreserved Ticket System (UTS) and passenger reservation for all classes has been eliminated due to the ongoing health advisory over COVID-19 and to deter passengers from undertaking non-essential travel. A ticket is not a system (PRS).