Destination address must when booking rail tickets

Destination address must when booking rail tickets

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi:  15.05.2020

Indian Railways has started taking the destination address of all passengers booking train tickets from Wednesday, which can be helpful in contact tracing, if required later. This will be a permanent feature for rail travel as India gets ready for a long battle against Covid-19.

The railway ministry has also announced that all tickets which were booked for normal trains before the lockdown for the travel period up to June 30 stand cancelled. There will be full refund of the ticket amount.

8 trains from NCR will take 32k home

A total of eight trains will carry 32,000 migrants in special trains to various destinations in Bihar from Noida and Ghaziabad either on Friday or Saturday. P 3

Family fined ₹32k for ticketless travel

In the first such instance, a family of five aboard the New Delhi-Bengaluru special AC train was slapped with a fine of Rs 32,000 for travelling without valid tickets. P 6

Refund of fare for those with symptoms

In the case of tickets booked from counters, passengers can apply for refunds within six months from the date of journey. Passengers can also cancel tickets booked from counters through 139 or through the IRCTC website and get refund across the counter within six months from date of journey.

The ministry had said on Wednesday that there will be full refund of fare if a passenger is found having Covid symptoms during screening. It said in case of a group ticket if one of the passengers is found unfit and others on the same PNR also do not want to travel, the railways will make full refund of the total fare.