Senior Citizens Ticket Concessions: A big update has come for senior citizens. They had been demanding concession in ticket fares in trains for a long time. Will Indian Railways start giving them ticket fare concessions like in pre-Covid times?
Senior Citizens Ticket Concessions: A big update has come for senior citizens. They had been demanding concession in ticket fares in trains for a long time. Will Indian Railways start giving them ticket fare concessions like in pre-Covid times? Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said on Friday that every passenger gets 55 percent discount on train travel. He said this while demanding restoration of pre-Covid fare concessions for senior citizens and media persons.
Without giving any direct answer to media queries on restoration of concessions, Vaishnav said, ‘Indian Railways is already giving 55 per cent concession on train fare to every train passenger.’ Vaishnav said this when he was in Ahmedabad to, among other things, review the progress of the ongoing Bullet Train project.
Railways used to give concession
Before the COVID-19 lockdown imposed in March 2020, the Railways used to offer 50 percent discount on train fares to senior citizens and government-accredited journalists. Railway operations were completely shut down during the lockdown, but when it fully resumed in June 2022, the Railway Ministry did not restore these concessions and since then the issue has been raised on various platforms, including both Houses of Parliament. But being picked up.
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