As per announcement made in the Railway Budget 2013-14, it has been decided by the Ministry of Railways to revise Tatkal charges. These charges will be applicable for journey starting from 01.04.2013 onwards. Now, the Tatkal charges will be realized @ 10% of basic far for reserved Second (2S) class and 30% of basic fare for all other classes subject to minimum and maximum as given below:-
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Revised Clerkage Charges and Cancellation Charges for Train Journeys to be Effective From 1st APRIL 2013.
The revision of Clerkage Charge and Minimum Cancellation charge was announced in the Railway Budget 2013-14. The revision will come into effect on tickets cancelled on and after 1st April 2013. The details of the revision are as under:-
(i) Clerkage Charges:-
| Class | Clerkage charge in case of cancellation of waiting list and RAC tickets (in Rs.) | |
|
| Existing | Revised |
| Second (Unreserved) | 10 | 15 |
| Second (reserved) | 20 | 30 |
| AC Chair Car | 20 | 30 |
| AC-3 Economy | 20 | 30 |
| AC-3 Tier | 20 | 30 |
| First Class | 20 | 30 |
| AC-2 Tier | 20 | 30 |
| AC First | 20 | 30 |
| Executive | 20 | 30 |
Reservation Fee and Supplementary Charge for Superfast Trains and Withdrawal of Enhanced Reservation Fee to be Effective from 1st April 2013.
It has been announced in Railway Budget 2013-14 for revision of Reservation Fee, Supplementary charge for Superfast Trains & withdrawal of Enhanced Reservation Fee. The revision will come into effect on tickets issued on and after 01.04. 2013 The details of these reservations are as under:-
(i) Reservation Fee:-
| Class | Revision Fee (in Rs.) | |
|
| Existing | Revised |
| Second | 15 | 15 (No change) |
| Sleeper | 20 | 20 (No Change) |
| AC Chair Car | 25 | 40 |
| AC-3 Economy | 25 | 40 |
| AC-3 Tier | 25 | 40 |
| First Class | 25 | 50 |
| AC-2 Tier | 25 | 50 |
| AC First | 35 | 60 |
| Executive | 35 | 60 |
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Highlights of Railway Budget 2013-14
· 67 new Express trains to be introduced
· 26 new passenger services, 8 DEMU services and 5 MEMU services to be introduced
· Run of 57 trains to be extended
· Frequency of 24 trains to be increased
· First AC EMU rake to be introduced on Mumbai suburban network in 2013-14
· 72 additional services to be introduced in Mumbai and 18 in Kolkata
· Rake length increased from 9 cars to 12 cars for 80 services in Kolkata and 30 services in Chennai
· 500 km new lines, 750 km doubling, 450 km gauge conversion targeted in 2013-14
· First ever rail link to connect Arunachal Pradesh
· Some Railway related activities to come under MGNREGA
· For the first time 347 ongoing projects identified as priority projects with the committed funding
Railway to Introduce Next Generation E-Ticketing System.
The Minister of Railways Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal has that his Ministry will put in place a Next Generation e-ticketing system to bring about a paradigm shift in internet rail ticketing. Presenting the Railway Budget for 2013-14 in Parliament today he said, the new system will significantly improve the end user experience in respect of ease of use, response time as well as capacity. He said, the new system shall be able to support 7200 tickets per minute as against 2000 tickets per minute at present. It will support 1, 20,000 simultaneous users at any point in time against the present capacity of 40,000 users with capability to easily scale up as demand increases in future. The Minister said, the system will make use of advanced fraud control and security management tools thereby further improving fairness and transparency in disbursal of tickets.
The Minister also announced several IT initiatives for the benefit of passengers. These are:
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