Ticket Reservation Time: If you also plan your journey four months in advance and are rest assured after booking the train ticket, then this news is for you. Indian Railways has changed the rules of ticket booking, under which now you can reserve tickets not four months but two months in advance. That means, if you want to travel in January 2025, you will have to book tickets in November only. Now you must have received this news by now, but we are going to tell you what and how much loss this decision will cause to the Railways.
This is not the first time that the Railways has changed the ticket reservation rules, even before this the Railways has brought a rule of one and then two months. However, later it was increased first to 90 days and then to 120 days. Now once again it has been reduced to two months i.e. 60 days.
How many people travel daily?
First of all, let us tell you how many people travel by train every day. According to statistics, about 13 thousand trains run daily across the country. In which more than two crore passengers travel every day. This is the reason why Railways is also called the lifeline of the people of India.
Money will arrive late in railway account
Now we have already told you that crores of people travel by train every day, in such a situation, when people booked tickets four months in advance, the money used to reach the railway account directly. That is, only four months ago the Railways had the money for all the bookings of almost every train. However, now this money will come two months earlier. This means that Railways may face some difficulties regarding preparation and expenditure of some things.
Canceled tickets will be less!
Now the time to book tickets has reduced, so this will have a direct impact on cancellations as well. Among those who used to book tickets four months in advance, there were also many people who canceled their tickets due to some reason or the other during these four months. Now, if two months’ time is given, ticket cancellations will reduce. This means that the money received by Railways in the name of cancellation charge may also be reduced.
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