Indian Railways Update: There is great news for the senior citizens of the country (Senior Citizen Train Ticket). If you also travel by train, then you will get many facilities from the railway side. For this, the Railways has made a big announcement.
Indian Railways Ticket Concession: There is great news for the senior citizens of the country (Senior Citizen Train Ticket). If you also travel by train, then you will get many facilities from the railway side. For this, the Railways has made a big announcement.
Railways has given information in the Parliament that every day more than 10,000 trains run by the department and in these the senior citizens of the country get many facilities. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav has given a lot of information about the facilities available to senior citizens in the Lok Sabha.
Ashwini Vaishnav gave information
- Giving information, Ashwini Vaishnav has told that senior citizens are getting the facility of confirmed lower berths in the train. There is a separate provision in the Railways for this. Please tell that a female passenger above 45 years of age will not have to select any option for lower berth. These passengers will automatically get a lower berth from the railway side.
Pregnant women also get this facility
According to the information received from the Railways, senior citizens, women above 45 years of age and pregnant women have 6 lower berth reserves in the sleeper category. Along with this, four to five lower berths have been earmarked in each coach in 3AC, three to four lower berths in each coach in 2AC.
Railway minister said on train ticket discount
He said that apart from this, a provision has also been made to give a lower berth to senior citizens, Divyangjan and women who have been given upper berths in the system by the onboard ticket checking staff, if any lower berth is vacant in the train.
59 thousand crore subsidy was given
The government had given a subsidy of Rs 59,837 crore on passenger tickets in 2019-20. He told that every person traveling by train is given an average discount of 53 per cent. This subsidy is given to all citizens including senior citizens. Apart from this, railways gives subsidy in many categories like Divyangjan, students and patients.
Who used to get how much discount?
According to the report released by the Railways, earlier the Railways used to give 40 percent discount in fares to men aged 60 years or more. On the other hand, if we talk about the exemption given to women, then these people used to get 50 percent exemption from the age of 58 years. Please tell that this discount is given in all types of trains including Mail, Express, Rajdhani.
