Railway Ticket Fare Discount: Indian Railways is the largest rail network in Asia and second largest in the world with more than 70,000 passenger coaches and more than 11,000 locomotives. Indian Railways transports around 25 million passengers daily. Indian Railways is one of the largest employers in the world with over 1.4 million people.
At the same time, Indian Railways also gives concessions in tickets. Railways provides travel concessions to various categories of passengers including award winners, unemployed youth, students, army personnel, disabled, escorts, tourist guides, patients, women, doctors etc. Senior citizens were given discount on train tickets before Kovid-19, but later it was discontinued.
Concession for Differently Abled Persons
Indian Railways gives concession for this category. Under this, Indian Railways provides 25%-75% concession to 4 types of disabled persons which include Orthopedically Handicapped/Paraplegic persons, Blind persons, Mentally challenged persons and Deaf and Dumb persons in Sleeper and AC classes.
How to get discount?
- You can keep your point regarding concessions at the station reservation center. You will have to submit the required documents directly at the ticket booking offices of the station.
- Further to avail the concession, you have to approach the designated commercial officers of the Railway Zone, Division or Zonal Railway Headquarters.
