Indian Railway News: Now Railway news has given a very good news to the senior citizens. If you are also a senior citizen and travel by train, then now you are going to get many facilities from the Railways.
Many updates have been given from time to time by the Railways to those traveling by train. Now Railway news has given a very good news to the senior citizens. If you are also a senior citizen and travel by train, then now you are going to get many facilities from the Railways.
Railway Minister gave this information in Parliament
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 had given great information about the facilities available to senior citizens in the Lok Sabha, which is not known to all.
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, 6 lower berths are reserved for senior citizens and women above 45 years of age 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.
The railway minister said on train ticket exemption, he said that apart from this, a provision has been made to give senior citizens, disabled people and women who were given upper berths in the system, if any lower berth is vacant in the train, by the onboard ticket checking staff. .
Who used to get how much discount?
According to the report released by the Railways, earlier the Railways used to give 40% 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.
