Senior citizens also have a lot of expectations from the Union Budget 2025. Apart from income tax relief, they are also expected to get discounts on train tickets again. Earlier, the Railways used to give a lot of discounts to the elderly on train tickets.
This made it very easy for crores of elderly people to travel by train. Especially those senior citizens got a lot of relief, who have to live on pension money after retirement. The question is whether Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will announce discounts on railway tickets to senior citizens again on February 1?
The government stopped the discount in March 2020
The government stopped giving discounts on train tickets to senior citizens in March 2020. Since then, they have to pay the full price of the train ticket. Organizations representing senior citizens are constantly demanding the government to resume discounts on train tickets. Every year this demand increases before the Union Budget. But , the government has not fulfilled this demand of the elderly in the last 5 years. This time the elderly are hopeful that their demand will be fulfilled.
Female senior citizens used to get 50% discount
Covid struck in March 2020. At the end of March, the government announced a lockdown. The wheels of trains stopped. With this, the discount that senior citizens used to get on train tickets stopped. Earlier, female senior citizens used to get a 50 percent discount on train tickets. Male and transgender senior citizens used to get a 40 percent discount. After the discount ended, senior citizens also have to pay the same price for train tickets as common people pay.
Passengers get 55% discount on train tickets
According to the rules of the Railways, men and transgenders aged 60 years and above are considered senior citizens. Women aged 50 years and above are considered senior citizens. Sources related to the Railways say that by ending the discount on train tickets for senior citizens, the income of the Railways has increased significantly. Last year, in response to the question of resuming the discount on train tickets for the elderly, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav had said that the government already gives 55 percent discount to the people on train tickets. This indicated that the government is not interested in resuming the discount on train tickets for the elderly.
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