Indian Railways CLARIFICATION alert! No waiting list? Only confirmed train tickets? Here is truth

Ministry of Railways has issued a clarification regarding news being published about waiting list for trains from 2024. Ministry of Railways says that various newspapers and online publications have given wide coverage to draft National Rail Plan. "Some of the news reports appear to suggest that Railways has said that there would be No waiting list with effect from 2024 or only confirmed tickets would be available by 2024," Ministry of Railways added.

Indian Railways CLARIFICATION

Further, Ministry of Railways says, "Railways would like to explain and clarify that efforts are being made to increase the capacity to make trains available on demand. This would reduce the possibility of passengers getting waitlisted. Wait list is a provision that remains whenever the demand for travelers in a given train is more than number of berths or seats available. The provision is not being done away "Waitlist" is a provision which act as a buffer to mitigate the fluctuations in demand and availability."

Meanwhile, Minister for Railways Piyush Goyal conducted a review of Railways’ Parcel business which was attended by the Members of Board, and other officials of Railway Board and CRIS.

During the last few months, Indian Railways has brought in several initiatives to attract more business towards its Parcel services. Some of them include:

 a) running of Kisan Rail trains to facilitate movement of farm and agri-produce;

b) grant of discounts on sectors where Parcel Vans and Parcel trains are returning empty; .

c) grant of discount on loading of 24 Parcel Vans in a single train;

d) opening of all goods-sheds,

e) Private Freight Terminals and Private Sidings for Parcel traffic; and

f) starting Parcel train for export traffic to Bangladesh.

In addition to these initiatives, Indian Railways is also planning to develop dedicated Parcel Terminals to make handling of Parcel consignments easier for the parties, and Sangola (Central Railway), Kacheguda (South Central Railway), Coimbatore (Southern Railway), and Kankariya (Western Railway) have already been identified for development as a pilot project.