Indian Railroads: Excellent news! When purchasing railway tickets, a lower berth will be guaranteed! IRCTC gave directions

 Indian Railroads: Excellent news! When purchasing railway tickets, a lower berth will be guaranteed! IRCTC gave directions

Railways of India This information will be very helpful to you if you too want to travel home during the summer. You will now have a guaranteed lower berth on the train. Railways provided instructions on how to secure a lower berth while purchasing tickets. Let's discuss the entire procedure.

Indian Railways: Read this news if you want to take the train home over the summer vacation and you also travel by rail. Indian Railways has provided information on how you might be guaranteed a lower berth when travelling. Even when older persons are requested during ticket buying, the lower berth is frequently not available. The Indian Railways, however, has reported it this time.

You can obtain a lower berth in this manner

Actually, a passenger using Indian Railways tweeted this inquiry to the railways asking why this is the case and that it needs to be changed. I had reserved tickets for three senior citizens with lower berth preferences, and even though there were 102 berths available, they have been provided middle berths, upper berths, and side lower berths, the passenger wrote, tagging Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav. You ought to fix it.

What was the IRCTC's response?

On Twitter, RCTC gave a response to this query. According to the rules, the IRCTC said, "Sir, the lower berth/senior citizen priority berth is only 60 years and above, lower berths allocated for female age of 45 years and above, when she is travelling by herself or with two passengers (travelling on one ticket)." IRCTC said that the system would not take into account a request if there are more than two senior citizens or in the event one senior citizen is there but the other is not.

Benefits for senior elderly are halted

The concessionary tickets of multiple groups of passengers, including elderly citizens, were cancelled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic in an effort to cut down on unnecessary travel. Additionally, according to Railways, discounts for older residents have been discontinued since they are at the greatest danger of COVID-19 virus propagation and fatality.