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Earmarking of Reservation Quota for Women and Senior Citizens

Commercial Circular No. 14 of 2016 · 2016-03-23
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Circular numberCommercial Circular No. 14 of 2016
File numberNo. 2012/TG-I/20/P/Lower
Date2016-03-23
TypeCommercial Circular
Topicreservation
CurrencyHistorical — likely superseded
Official PDFindianrailways.gov.in

Summary

Earmarking of Reservation Quota for Women and Senior Citizens this quota in 3AC class should be 4 lower berths per coach as against 3 lower

Text of the circular

Government of India (Bharat Sarkar)
Ministry of Railways (Rail Mantralaya)
: (Railway Board)
No. 2012/TG-I/20/P/Lower Berth New Delhi, dated 23.03.2016

Chief Commercial Managers,
All Zonal Railways.

(Commercial Circular No. 14 of 2016)

Sub: Earmarking of Reservation Quota for Women and Senior
Citizens.

Please refer to this office letter of even No. dated 18.04.2007 (CC No. 40
of 2007) wherein instructions were issued for earmarking of combined quota of
two lower berths per coach in Sleeper, AC-3 Tier and AC-2 Tier classes for
following category of passengers while travelling alone:-

a. Senior Citizens;
b. Female passengers 45 years of age and above; and
c. Pregnant women.

1.1 The above said. quota in Sleeper class was enhanced to four lower berths
per coach vide Commercial Circular No. 51 of 2015 issued on 31.08.2015. No
change was, however, made in this quota in 3AC and 2AC classes.

2. Keeping in view the announcement made in the Railway Budget for the
financial year 2016-17 regarding enhancement of this quota, the matter has
been examined and it has been decided to enhance the above said quota as
under:-

Class No. of Lower Berths per coach

; Existing Revised
Sleeper | 4
3AC 2

2AC 2

3. It has also been decided that in Rajdhani, Duronto and fully Air -

Conditioned/Express trains, the number of lower berths to be earmarked under
this quota in 3AC class should be 4 lower berths per coach as against 3 lower
berths per coach in case of normal Mail/Express trains.

-2]-

2.

4. Necessary action may be taken accordingly to define this quota from
ARP or no booking date whichever is earlier which in no case should be later

than 01.09.2016.
Nels
Po

(Vikram Singh)
Director Passenger Marketing
| Railway Board
Copy to:

1. CCM/PMs and CCM/PSs, all Zonal Railways.

2. ADG/PR Railway Board.

3. MD/IRCTC, Bank of Baroda Building, Parliament Street, New
Delhi, .

4, General Manager/PRS-I, CRIS, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.

5. . Director General, Professor/Training & Professor/Commercial
Railway Staff College, Vadodara.

6. The Principals, Zonal Training Centers, Central Railway, Bhusaval,
Eastern Railway, Dhanbad, Northern Railway, Chandausi, NE
Railway, Muzaffarpur, NF Railway, Alipurduar, Southern Railway,
Trichy, South Central Railway, Maula Ali, SE Railway, Sini,
Western Railway, Udaipur.

7. Director, Indian Railway Institute of Transport Management,
Hardoi Bypass Road, Manak Nagar, Luknow-2260011.

8. General Secretary, National Federation of Indian Railwaymen

(NFIR), 3, Chelmsford Road, New Delhi.

9. General Secretary, All India Railwaymen Federation (AIRF), 4,
State Entry Road, New Delhi. |

10. Secretary General, Federation of Railway Officers Association

(FROA), Room No.370, Rail Bhawan, New Delhi.

11. Secretary General, Indian Railway Promotee Officers Federation
(IRPOF), Room No. 268, Rail Bhawan, New Delhi.

12. Secretary General, All India RPF Association, Room No.256-D,
Rail Bhawan, New Delhi.

13. CTM, Metro Railway, Metro Rail Bhavan, 33/1, J L Nehru Road,
Kolkata-71.

नें ने ने के के

भारत सरकार
to मंत्रालय
रेलवे बोर्ड)

जल को को
सं. 2012/टीजी-1/20/पी/लोअर बर्थ नई दिल्‍ली, दिनांक 23.03.2016

मुख्य वाणिज्यिक प्रबंधक,
सभी' क्षेत्रीय रैलें।

(2016 का वाणिज्यिक परिपत्र सं, 14)
विषय: महिलाओं और वरिष्ठ नागरिकों के लिए आरक्षण कोटा निर्धारित करना।

कृपया... इस. कार्यालय... के... दिनांक. 18.04.2007.. के. समसंख्यक . पत्र
(2007 का. वाणिज्यिक परिपत्र सं. 40) का अवलोकन करें जिसमें अकेले यात्रा करते समय
निम्नलिखित कोटि के यात्रियों के लिए स्त्रीपर, एसी-3 टियर और एसी-2 टियर श्रेणियों में प्रति कोच
दो निचली seit का संयुक्त कोटा निर्धारित करने के अनुदेश जारी किए गए थे:-

. ANTS नागरिक;
@ 45 वर्ष और इससे अधिक आयु की महिला यात्री; तथा
7 ..... गर्भवती महिलाएं।

1.1. स्लीपर श्रेणी में उपर्युक्त उल्लिखित कोटे को 31.08.2015 को जारी 2015 के वाणिज्यिक
परिपत्र सं. 51 के तहत बढ़ाकर प्रति कोच, चार adit बर्थ किया गया था। . बहरहाल, 3एसी और
2एसी श्रेणियों के इस ae में कोई परिवर्तन नहीं किया गया था।

2.2 इस कोटे को बढ़ाने के लिए वित्त वर्ष 2

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