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Posted: May 31 2016 (13:35)
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Last Response: Jun 01 2016 (00:54)
6 Responses
Last Response: Jun 01 2016 (00:54)
I saw on social media about rules change in railways and that there will no longer be system of waitlist and that tickets will only be issues if it's confirm or RAC. This is absurd and doesn't make any sense. Is this true???
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They are starting this process with Suvidha trains... by 2020, they are planning to bring that in all trains...
Ok, got it. Makes sense now but for all trains, it would be too much. For example, if a ticket is not available, a person who is busy in his work or life will have no time to continuosly check when tickets will become available so he or she may like to book a waitlisted ticket. Removing waitlist from all trains doesn't seem feasible or practical!
As of now there seems to be no limit on the number of waitlists for trains hence you can see lots of waitlisted psngrs in reserved coaches. To some extent this will stop if the new thing is implemented. But having said that i think they should not entirely remove waitlists.
They can set a lower limit on the maximum number of wait lists issued for a train and even after that if tickets are still available closer to journey date, either add it to tatkal quota or issue through counter as current reservation [This might be a weird suggestion though !!]
They can set a lower limit on the maximum number of wait lists issued for a train and even after that if tickets are still available closer to journey date, either add it to tatkal quota or issue through counter as current reservation [This might be a weird suggestion though !!]
As I have heard that railways loses money on SL tickets so I believe it serves well for railways as people travel on W/L tickets and railways gets the reveue. If W/L is removed, people are anyways gonna travel, they will just buy current 2nd class ticket and the TTEs will make a killing. The railways will be the biggest loser!