From 1st March ,No refund for Non-Travellers

Railways is now going to modify the cancellation policy . From 1st March railway will not provide any refund on non-traveled ticket. That means you  cannot claim any refund when you have not traveled on that ticket. Earlier you have option to file a TDR and get the refund but now railways is now in mood to change the policy.

There will be no partial refund for person who has not traveled on group ticket on single PNR.
This rule will surely help to control black marketing of ticket by touts but at the same time this will add burden to passenger pocket.

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Pay using MobiKwik for Tatkal Ticket on IRCTC

mobile wallet service MobiKwik has started payment with Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) to launch e-cash payments for Tatkal bookings. According to MobiKwik, IRCTC customers can book Tatkal train tickets within two seconds using its service.Now IRCTC user can pay using  virtual wallet. earlier mobile wallet for Tatkal ticket was not allowed.Using this facilitu no dobut this will be faster and easier.

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Major Changes in Indian Railways rules from 1 July 2016

Major changes in Indian Railways rules

1) From July 1, passengers will get refund amount of 50 percent on cancellation of tatkal tickets.

2)  From July 1, tatkal window for AC coach will be open between 10 am and 11 am while for sleeper coach it will be open from 11 am to 12 pm.

3) No Waiting list ticket  will be issued from IRCTC. Suvidha trains will run if there is waiting list. Tickets shall be issued only for confirmed and RAC passengers in suvidha Trains. There shall be no provision for waiting list in the train.There will be provision of 50% refund on ticket cancellation in Suvidah Trains

4) The number of coaches on Rajdhani and Shatabdi will be increased.

5) Rajdhani and Shatabdi trains will have paperless tickets from July 1. Mobile tickets will be valid on these trains.

6) Railways will also start ticket printing in Regional Langauge

7) Premium trains will come to an end.

8) For Suvidha Trains 50% refund of fare subject to minimum flat cancellation charge of Rs. 200/- for AC-II tier/first class, Rs. 180/- for AC-III tier/3 Economy/ air conditioned chair car and Rs. 120/- for sleeper class will be granted for confirmed/RAC tickets upto 6 hours before the scheduled departure of the train or preparation of the chart whichever is earlier. No Refund of fare after that will
be granted. Such refund will be granted by filing TDR. 

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No service charge on using Credit /Debit card forTicket booking at PRS counter

From 1 June 2016 there will not be charged extra for using credit or debit card for booking train ticket at the Passenger Reservation System (PRS) counters as the Indian Railways Earlier to book the ticket using Credit /Debit card passenger has to  with Rs 30 service charge.at PRS counter

However, the service charge for booking tickets online through IRCTC website will remain unaffected.

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Easy Ticket Cancellation Method using 139

From Today  railway passengers can cancel their confirmed train tickets( Paper Ticket/i-ticket) by just dialing 139.
The passenger has to dial 139 for cancelling it with relvant PNR number and the sender will get a one-time password (OTP). Passenger has to reach the Passenger Reservation System (PRS) counter and reveal the OTP to claim refund.There is another option also that is  using IRCTC website
 and both the facilities were made operational from today.This will provide relief to passengers for
cancellation of tickets.

This  initiatives were promised in the Railway Budget 2016-17 which were fulfilled today.
After the change in refund rules, a lot of passengers were finding it difficult to reach counters to cancel the reserved tickets within the stipulated time and as a result they are losing money.
Railways has to changed the software accordingly for the cancellation through IRCTC website and 139.

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Change in Boarding Station online for e-ticket via IRCTC

If you book your ticket from  IRCTC  website i. e e-ticket there IRCTC has given  a special gift for those who come to book . Railway have given them the facility that they can change their Boarding station.Now you can go online and book tickets after that you can change your boarding the station c . Prior to this, people had to go to the ticket counter and then they have to do application for changing Boarding station , but now it will not like this. For E-ticket Passenger has to visit counter from where to start the journey had to be made ​​to change the reservation window with Photo copy of the e-ticket along with photo ID . but now you can  do it now you can change Boarding station two days prior from Date of Journey.

How do you change the station

Passenger  will have to go to  IRCTC reservation portal. Customers will have the option to change the ticket boarding. This facility will get live from February 15. If there will be any change in Fare due to station change then there will be no refund for excess fare.

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New rules for IRCTC for Ticket booking and more : From 1st Feb and 1st March

From 1st February 2016 Railway has planned to have new rule for Ticket mobbking Here are some of it major point:

1) From a single user id of IRCTC ,a Peson can book only 2 ticket between 8 to 10 AM
2) From a single user ID of IRCTC ,a person can book only 2 ticket for Tatkal between 10 AM to 12        PM
3) From a single ID,a user can booking only 6 ticket in a calendar month.
4) Agent login on IRCTC will be possible only from 8:30 AM .that is 30 minutes late from normal booking.
5) No 8  AM to 12 PM  there will be no any e-wallet payment method.

Validity of Unservered ticket will be now 3 hours

From 1st March 2016,Railways has decide to reduce the validity of ticket validity to 3 hrs from existing 24 hr. Further there will be no Return ticket will be issued upto 200Km.

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