Indian Railways ticket booking for 200 trains starts; Here are the guidelines you need to follow

The Indian Railways Wednesday released a list of 200 trains which are scheduled to run from 1 June, 2020 along with reservation rules. The bookings for the tickets began from May 21 from 10 am. These trains also include the popular trains such as Durontos, Sampark Krantis, Jan Shatabdis and Poorva Express and more. Railways also said that these will have both AC and non-AC classes and fully reserved coaches.

What are the important things you must know?

The tickets for these trains could be purchased through online IRCTC website or app with maximum advance reservation period of 30 days, the Railways added. These trains will be fully reserved trains having both AC, non-AC classes; general coaches shall also have reserved seats for sitting.

It said the general (GS) coaches shall also have reserved seats for sitting, meaning there will be no unreserved coach in these trains.

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The passengers should know that second seating (2S) fare shall be charged for general coaches being reserved and seats will be given to all passengers. It said that no unreserved (UTS) tickets will be issued and no tickets will be issued onboard to any passenger during the journey, adding no tatkal and premium tatkal booking shall be permitted.

The Railways has made it clear that tickets will not be sold at any railway station and prospective travellers should not come to the railway station to buy tickets. While the RAC waitlist will be generated, the waiting list ticket-holders will not be permitted to board trains to be run from June 1.

The Railways also plans to double the Shramik Special Trains to help stranded migrants. 

"Within the next two days Indian Railways will double the number of Shramik Special Trains to 400 per day. All migrants are requested to stay where they are, Indian Railways will get them back home over the next few days," Union Minister Piyush Goyal had tweeted.