Monday, July 28, 2014

Advance Booking of Reserved Train Tickets



                        It is proposed to add another 5000 such machines across all Zonal Railways, out of which 2000 will be coin operated and 3000 smart card operated.  The procurement these machines will start from this financial year.
Smart card based ATVMs have been deployed at 313 stations as under:

S.No.
Zonal Railways
Deployed at number of Stations
No. of functional ATVMs
1.
Northern Railway
31
54
2.
Western Railway
32
80
3
Central Railway
73
312
4
Eastern Railway
40
83
5
South Eastern Railway
43
76
6
East Coast Railway
21
32
7
Southern Railway
50
74
8
South Central Railway
23
70

Total:
313
781

            At times, due to vandalisation and rough usage by passengers, some of these machines get defective. Zonal Railways are constantly monitoring the performance of ATVMs and defective machines are repaired expeditiously.
           This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri Manoj Sinha in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.



The advance reservation period for booking reserved accommodation is 60 days excluding the day of journey. In case of certain day time express trains, shorter time limits are prescribed.

In case of Tatkal tickets, the booking opens at 1000 hours on the previous day of journey from the train originating station.

In case of unreserved tickets involving journey upto 200 kilometres, the tickets can be booked on the same day whereas tickets involving journey of more than 200 kilometres can be booked up to three days in advance excluding the day of journey.

Premium trains with dynamic pricing have been introduced during the Holi and summer rush with shorter advance reservation periods of up to 15 days.

Indian Railways have a route length of about 65,436 kilometres. On an average, about 23 million passengers commute across Indian Railways daily. The passenger traffic on different routes varies from season to season, day to day and train to train.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri Manoj Sinha in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

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