For all Senior Citizens, The Railways have introduced one additional facility for Senior Citizens travelling alone -- they will be issued a confirmed ticket and will not be placed on the Waiting List or RAC list -- Also they are assured that they will be allotted a lower berth -- the long one and not the one in the corridor
The booking clerk at Bombay Central told me of this policy but a month earlier at Dhanbad, where I had booked a ticket to Calcutta, the clerk made me book under the TATKAL quota Regards Aloysius D'Souza ----- Original Message ----- From: marie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 7:57 am Subject: [Goanet] senior citizens note To: aldona-net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > About a month back i went to Thivim to cancel my railway ticket. > There was > a long queue and i got quite tired standing there. At railway > long distance > ticket counters in B'bay there are separate queues for senior > citizens and > at Churchgate even a separate one for women. I went to the > Station Master's > Office (at Thivim a Station Mistress) and asked whether they could > not have > a separate queue for Senior Citizens, even if it is at the same > counter.Her reply - nowhere in Goa is it done - Well. i said, > can it not change? > > Any way i asked for their Complaint / Suggestion Book and wrote in my > suggestion. I was very heartened when i received a reply to my > suggestion"Instructions are being issued to give preference to > Senior Citizens and > Physically challenged persons in the case when the number of > persons are > more in the queue" > > copies have been sent to RRM/KAWR; Dy. CCM/ Belapur; Sr. Station > Master,Thivim; Sr.CS (R) / MAO > > > -- > marie >
