Indian Railways Ticket: Indian Railways provides many facilities to its passengers. But railway passengers do not know about many facilities. One such facility is how the passenger will travel after the train ticket is lost. Let’s know the updates.
Indian Railways Ticket: If you also travel by train during the festival, then this news is important for you. If your train ticket is suddenly lost somewhere during or before the journey, will you be able to travel without a ticket? Let us know what you should do in this critical situation?
Duplicate train ticket
If you have lost your train ticket somewhere, do not panic. Because the railways also knows that this is a common mistake which can happen to anyone. Therefore, Indian Railways gives a new facility to its passengers in such a situation. If you lose your train ticket, you can travel instead by issuing a duplicate train ticket, although you will have to spend some extra money for this.
Extra charge for tickets
According to the Indian Railways website indianrail.gov.in, if a confirmed/RAC ticket is reported missing before the preparation of the reservation chart, a duplicate ticket is issued in its place. According to the Railways, some charge has to be paid for this.
You will get a duplicate ticket for second and sleeper class by paying Rs 50. For the rest of the second class, Rs 100 will have to be paid. If after the preparation of the reservation chart, the information about the loss of the confirmed ticket is received, a duplicate ticket is issued on recovery of 50% of the fare.
Pay attention to these things
Be sure to read these 5 things related to duplicate tickets carefully, because it will definitely work for you somewhere.
1. If you apply before the preparation of the reservation chart, then the same charges will be applicable for the loss/lost ticket.
2. According to Indian Railways, no duplicate ticket will be issued for mutilated tickets in the waiting list.
3. Further, refund is also admissible on mutilated/mutilated tickets, if the genuineness and authenticity of the ticket is verified on the basis of details.
4. In case of RAC tickets, no duplicate ticket can be issued after the preparation of the reservation chart.
5. If the original ticket is also received after the issue of the duplicate ticket and both the tickets are shown to the Railways before the departure of the train, the fee paid for the duplicate ticket will be refunded, though 5% of the amount will be deducted , which will be minimum 20 rupees.
