New rules of Indian Railway General Ticket

September 24, 2023Last Updated: September 24, 2023

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Indian Railways General Ticket Rules: Big festivals like Navratri and Diwali are coming. In such a situation, there is important news for railway passengers. Generally people buy general tickets for short distance journeys, while reservation tickets for long distance journeys. However, it has been seen many times that even while traveling long distances, people complete their journey by sitting in general i.e. unreserved coach.
there are some compartments in the train
Often trains have AC, sleeper and normal coaches. So that people can travel according to their financial capacity. Actually, the fare of general coach is the lowest and the fare of AC coach is the highest.
You can travel in Window Ticket General Coach
There is no need to take any reserve ticket to travel in general bogie. For this, people can travel easily by taking tickets from the window.
There are rules for traveling in coach
Indian Railways has made rules for traveling in all coaches and for violating these, the Railways can also impose fine on the passenger.
It is illegal to travel on more than one train on one ticket
It has been seen many times that people travel in more than one train with one ticket and reach their destination. According to railway law, this is wrong and you may also have to pay a fine. According to railway rules, you should travel by the same train for which you have taken the ticket. Irrespective of whether the ticket is general or unreserved.
The name of the station and time are written on the ticket.
Let us tell you that the name and time of the station from where you buy it is written on the ticket. On the basis of which TTE can catch you and can also impose heavy fine on you.
General ticket validity is
Actually, the general ticket has a fixed time limit after which it becomes invalid. Validity of general tickets purchased from metro city stations like Delhi, Mumbai is 1 hour. The passenger will have to catch the train within this one hour. Whereas the duration of a train ticket purchased from a small station is 3 hours.