Counter Ticket Rule: Know this rule of Railways also. If you buy a ticket from the counter and that ticket wanders or accidentally leaves it at home, then whether the railway will allow you to travel on that ticket or not. If you have photo of ticket then TTE will accept that ticket or not? The rule of keeping tickets was changed during the time of Mamta Banerjee’s Railway Minister.
Indian Railway Rules: If you buy a ticket from the ticket counter of the railway. But by mistake you left the ticket at home. However, you have a photo of a railway ticket and a railway message on your mobile. In which complete information about your ticket. So will the railways allow you to travel or not? Know this railway rule. Let us tell you that during her tenure as Railway Minister, Mamta Banerjee did away with the need to keep railway tickets. Know the whole rule?
Railway’s SMS (Railway Ticket Sms) is valid!
If you have seat and berth number message on mobile phone. In which the ticket is also confirmed. The railway considers it a valid ticket. But there is also some condition with this. According to the Railways, SMS is valid in the case of only those passengers who have booked tickets through IRCTC. Those who buy tickets from the counter, the message on that ticket is not valid.
You do not have a counter ticket, can you travel?
If you have taken a counter ticket and the ticket is not with you, then that passenger may be allowed to travel subject to fulfillment of certain conditions. First of all, that person will have to prove in front of TTE that he is the same passenger in whose name the ticket has been generated. However, even after that, the passenger will have to spend more. He will also have to pay the ticket price and fine. You should also know that if the ticket will be of air condition class then GST will have to be paid separately.
This is not a valid ticket
It is necessary to carry the ticket purchased from the counter as the railway does not consider the photo or SMS as valid. The reason behind this is that whoever has the counter ticket can cancel it by going to any window of the railway, after canceling, he can also take a refund from the railway or can also travel with the same ticket. . If permission is given by the railways, then the railways can suffer huge losses.
In the case of e-ticket, when is the print out obligation over?
If you have an e-ticket, then you just show the message to the TTE or show the screenshot of the ticket. A few years back, Railways used to demand print outs for e-tickets as well. That is, the passenger who did not have a print out. That passenger was considered a ticket. Challan action was done on it in the same way as it is done with a ticket. But when Mamta Banerjee became the Railway Minister. After that this matter was taken care of. In 2012 itself, the compulsion of carrying the print out of the ticket was removed for the e-ticket takers.
