IRCTC News & Updates

[Sushubh]

IRCTC changes tatkal ticket booking rules. Read on to know more

1. AC Tatkal tickets booking will start from 10 am and non-AC ticket booking to begin at 11 am. You have to book the ticket a day before the travelling date.

2. If a train is more than three hours late, the passenger can claim complete refund of fare and Tatkal charges.

3. A passenger can claim a full refund if the train’s route is diverted and the passenger doesn’t want to travel on that route.

4. A passenger can claim refund on Tatkal tickets if the train’s route is diverted and the boarding station/destination or both are not on the diverted route.

5. A passenger can claim full refund if he/she is accommodated in lower class and doesn’t wish to travel in the lower class and the passenger has paid the difference if he/she agrees to travel in the lower class.

 

[Smh]

did they just changed time again from 10 to 11 for non AC and vice-versa ?

 

[dextermorgan]

It was 11 am for non ac and 10 am for Ac since a long time.

 

[Smh]

so what changed ?

 

[Smh]

^ comments from linked dna article

@Sushubh fake news ?

 

[Navjot Singh]

Ok. Looks like earlier full refunds were not offered for tatkal tickets but now you can claim full refunds under the conditions mentioned above.

 

[amish]

Refund rules existing earlier too.. Nothing new.

Refund is not given on tatkal if you cancel it.

 

[dextermorgan]

so what changed ?

That newspaper should know. mc creating fake news. my dad called me up asking me about the changes..wtf is wrong with these newspapers?

 

[Smh]

its not just one newspaper its every fucking newspaper just recycling the same fake news. They just quote each other as sources and no one knows the original source.

 

[Sushubh]

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