- TEJAS, VANDE BHARAT EXPRESS: A JOURNEY TO REMEMBER and DEVEOP BETTER :
After a long time, I had the opportunity to travel with the Indian Railways (IR), having regained good health. Interestingly, I ended up traveling on premium trains—the Vande Bharat and Tejas...
By Jayakumar Daniel/ - Wait listed tickets
It will be better to stop issuing wait listed tickets. Only confirmed and RAC tickets. Passengers take wating list ticket and sit in reserved coaches forcefully in groups. RAC should...
By Satyapal Singh/ - Prioritise Wait List Passengers For Confirmed Tatkal Tickets
Indian Railways should give first right of refusal to Wait List Passengers to Convert WL Tkts To Confirmed Tatakal Tkts. This can be done by sending an SMS and Email asking for confirmation and pay...
By Santosh Ramanand/ - Utility
Recently I traveled Tirupati to Mayiladuthurai; then Chennai; then to Hyderabad. I have Railway utility Brought up Excellent. Food supplier through train quality become good; Outside supplier also ...
By Kv Venkata Chalam/ - IRCTC: REVOLUTIONIZING RAIL TRAVEL IN INDIA :
The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has transformed rail travel for the common man in India. Its online ticket booking system, launched in August 2002, is a technological bo...
By Jayakumar Daniel/ - IRCTC must do better
IRCTC’s Market Cap is Around ₹64,000 Crore Takes ₹20/30 Convenience Fee for Booking Cancellation Charges (₹60/Upto 50% of Ticket) Still App Crashes Often, Fai...
By Naina Mittal/ - Curbing Rail Worker Perks: A Balancing Act for the Nation
Spurred by the meaningful responses from the learned members on the Topic ''Restoration of ravel concessions for seniors'' Some more inputs : The idea of curbing the perks enjoyed by ra...
By Jayakumar Daniel/ - APPEAL TO THE INDIAN RAILWAYS TO RESTORE SENIOR CITIZENS' TRAVEL CONCESSIONS:
The withdrawal of senior citizens' travel concessions during the COVID-19 pandemic was a prudent measure at the time. It helped minimize travel and reduce the risk of infection, especially for a vu...
By Jayakumar Daniel/ - When there is no respect , there is no concession
When government has 20 lakh crore to waive off of rich and regularly waiving off billions of loan this question is invalid that why the concession of rich should not be restores. There is no intent...
By Anil Srivastava/ - Restoring concession to in the rail fares to the senior citizens
Before the covid, the senior citizens used to get 40-50% concession in the rail fares. But the railways stopped this concession giving the reason of covid. However even after 4 years of disappearan...
By Shashidhar Viraktamath/ - TICKET BOOKING 120 DAYS AHEAD "vis-à-vis" 60 DAYS AHEAD :
I actually thought it would work the other way — reducing tout activity! This is what happens when we book on the very first day of the 120-day advance booking window: waitlists st...
By Jayakumar Daniel/
