Railway ticket refund rules become strict, from July 1

Railways New Rules For Ticket Cancellation

The Railway Ministry has revised and amended Refund Rules in a comprehensive manner and notified them to come into force from July 1, said a Northeast Frontier Railway release has said.

Rail ticket refund rules become strict with  effective from July 1.You can no longer cancel a train ticket 24 hours before your journey and still claim a full refund. 

The railways said it had also reduced the time wherein a passenger could claim back 75 per cent of the booking amount. For this, passengers will now need to cancel tickets six hours prior to departure, two hours fewer than earlier.

Under the new rules, the time for filing of refund claims has been reduced from existing 90 days to 10 days of the train's departure in case of unforeseen circumstances like strike or any natural causes like floods.

According to the new rules, even those with waitlisted or RAC tickets would have to cancel their tickets three hours before the train's actual departure to get the refund after deduction of clerkage charge of Rs 30 once the new rules are implemented from July 1.

New rules would not allow any refund two hours after the train's departure. Existing rules permit cancellation till three hours after the train's departure.

Railway said passengers seeking duplicate tickets for their confirmed or RAC tickets will have to pay Rs 50 per passenger in case of second and sleeper class and Rs 100 per passenger for other classes instead of paying only the clerkage charges as per existing rules.

"In case no current counters are available at journey originating station for night trains leaving between 9 pm and 6 am, refund shall be admissible at the station within first two hours after the opening of reservation counter," the ministry said.

Source: zeenews.india.com