Train Ticket Discount: Railway gives discount to some special passengers in train ticket. See the complete list here.
Train Ticket Discount: Indian Railways is the fourth largest rail network in the world. Crores of people travel by it every day. Railways provides various facilities to its passengers in different categories of coaches, for which they have to pay the fare accordingly. However, the railways gives discounts to some special people in the journey of trains. In this, from students to patients suffering from certain types of diseases. Apart from this, Divyangjans also get discount in train tickets. Let us see the complete list of those people who get discount in train tickets.
These people get discount on train ticket
Railways give concession in train tickets to Divyangjan, mentally retarded and completely blind passengers, who cannot travel without another person. Such people are given a discount of up to 75 percent in general class, sleeper and 3AC. These passengers get 50 percent discount in 1AC, 2AC and up to 25 percent discount in 3AC and AC chair car of trains like Rajdhani Shatabdi. An escort accompanying such a person also gets the same discount on train tickets.
Persons who are completely unable to speak and hear get 50 per cent concession in train tickets. An escort accompanying such a person also gets the same discount on train tickets.
These patients also get discount
Patients suffering from many diseases also get discounts on railway train tickets. In this, cancer, thalassemia, heart patients, kidney patients, hemophilia patients, TB patients, AIDS patients, ostomy patients, anemia, aplastic anemia patients also get discount on train tickets.
