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| Circular number | Commercial Circular No. 06 of 1999 |
|---|---|
| Type | Commercial Circular |
| Topic | emergency-quota |
| Official PDF | indianrailways.gov.in |
quotas and there will be Quota, Foreign Tourist quota, Defence quota, etc.
“GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAILWAY BOARD) de dg fe “No. 99/TG/20/P "New Delhi, dated 2) 4.99. The Chief Commercial Manager, All Indian Railways. _ The Chief Commercial Manager(PM), _ Central Railway, Mumbai. . Eastern Railway, Calcutta. Northern Railway, New Delhi. Southern Railway, Chennai. — South Central Railway, Secunderabad. Western Railway, Mumbai. CIRCULAR NO.6-COMML. DIRECTORATE. Consequent upon networking of five main PRSs on Indian Railways, it has become necessary to rationalise the reservation quota distribution system. A note indicating the policy to be followed by the Zonal Railways in this regard duly approved by - Board(MT) is enclosed. Board desire that necessary action may be taken to implement this policy immediately, This policy will not be applicable to Rajdhani and Shatabdi Express Trains for which separate instructions are being issued. . Kindly acknowledge receipt of this letter and report ~ compliance at the earliest. 7 - DA: As above. , | (Dr P.K.Goel) Executive Director (PM) '. _ Railway Board. Lg ro 1. BACKGROUND » 41 There is a general feeling among the travelling public that it is very difficult to get confirmed reservations for their journey even within a few minutes on the’ opening day of the reservations for any particular train, This belief is due to Passengers’ perception of peak seasons, like, summer vacations, Pooja holidays X'mas vacations, etc. where also the phenomenon occurs on important trains only. But it is a fact that the confirmed reservations are not available to the passengers who want to travel at a short notice on almost ail the days throughout the year, particularly, in the Mail/Express and Superfast trains. 1.2 While the solution to. this problem lies in. making available sufficient accommodation to the travelling public by way of introducing new trains, augmentation of the load of existing trains increasing the frequency of the existing trains which should be the basic thrust areas Apart from this the reservation of berths should optimized, the problems encountered in the process | of allotment & utilization of quotas are - 4g 2. PROBLEMS 2.1The reserved accommodation has been distributed to a large number of stations. While at some stations, the demand is much more than’ the - availability, at some other stations, the quota allotted are not being fully utilised leaving a scope for malpractice on the part of the TTEs in the train. 2.2Requesis are received from various Members of Parliament and other dignitaries for allotmeritfenhancement of reservation quota at various stations thereby requiring handling of a huge correspondence and big processing | 2.3Presently, the manual system of quotas co-exist with the computerised reservation system at some places. .. 2.4There is no uniformity for allotment of various quotas such as Emergency - Quota, Foreign Tourist quota, Defence quota, etc. - 2.5 There is no uniformity in defining intermediate station quotas and other quotas in various coaches. 2.6With the networking of five PRS systems of Northern, Central, Southern, South Central and Eastern Railways, it has become necessary to re-define the quotas to ensure optimum utilisation and earnings. 5० 3.1 3.2 3.3 PROPOSED RATIONALISATION & ACTION With immediate effect every long distance trains will be logically split into’ two groups from the point of view of accommodation. One will be end to end accommodation and the other will be accommodation for roadside _ Passengers The quota as well as coaches will be accordingly defined and coach indication boards etc should be placed accordingly. Thus, there will be only two quotas - End to End Quota and Roadside Quota These will - be defined as primary quotas The second level of quotas will be known as sub-quotas and there will be sub-quota within: end to end quota as well as for roadside quota. All reservations like Emergency quota, Defence, Foreign Tourist quota
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