Indian Railway: Once again senior citizens can get 50 percent discount in train ticket fare. Indian Railways may soon restore the concession given to senior citizens. Let us know about it in detail.
Senior citizens can once again get 50 percent discount in train ticket fare. Indian Railways may soon restore the concession given to senior citizens, which was stopped during the Corona epidemic. A committee of Parliament has urged the Railway Ministry to consider reinstating the discount given to senior citizens in train fares. In this, there has been a demand to restore the discount in ticket fare given to senior citizens in sleeper class, 3rd AC.
If the Railway Ministry considers this appeal, then senior citizens may once again get exemption. However, in December 2022, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav had clarified that the discount in ticket fare cannot be restored at present. He gave the reason behind this that the pension and salary bill of Railways is very high. The burden of expenditure on Railways is higher than before.
53 percent discount was available
According to the information received from the Ministry of Railways, all the citizens traveling by train get an average discount of 53 percent on the fare. Apart from this, disabled people, students and patients also get many other concessions. Senior citizens had been getting such exemption earlier also, but it was withdrawn in March 2020 during the Corona epidemic. Now there is a demand to restore it again.
Discounts were available on all trains
According to the report, the committee said that Indian Railways used to give 40 percent fare concession to men aged 60 years and above and 50 percent concession to women if the minimum age was 58 years. Let us tell you that senior citizens were getting these concessions in rail tickets in all Mail, Express, Rajdhani, Shatabdi, Duronto trains. Railways withdrew this discount on train ticket fare during the Corona period.
