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Change of boarding point

Commercial Circular No. 17 of 2019 · 2019-03-15
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Circular numberCommercial Circular No. 17 of 2019
File numberNo. 2018/TG-1/20/P/48
Date2019-03-15
TypeCommercial Circular
Topicreservation
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Summary

Change of boarding point a, if accommodation is available from original boarding point to changed boarding

Text of the circular

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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (fa सरकार]
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS हिल मंत्रालय)

(RAILWAY BOARD) [रेलवे a3)
deretede :

No. 2018/TG-1/20/P/48 . _ New Delhi, dated 15.03.2019

The General Managers,
All Zonal Railways.

(Commercial Circular No.17 of 2019)

Sub: Change of boarding point.

Ministry of Railways have decided that Para 637 of Indian Railways

Commerciai Manual Vol.l may be revised as per correction Slip No.26
enclosed herewith,

CRIS will make necessary modifications in the software and advise the

date of effect to all zonal Railways as well as this office which in no case
shall be later than 01.05.2019

Necessary instructions may be issued to all concerned accordingly,

Wide publicity to this provision should be given for information of general
public, after the date of effect is advised by CRIS. —

AW
(Shelly Srivastava)

Director Passenger Marketing
Railway Board

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

2. EDV(T),EDFC,DF(C),PPS/FC, OSD/TC, छाए) & V(SS} branches of Railway Board

3. MD/IRCTC, B 148,11th Floor, Statesman House, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi-
110001

4. MD/CRIS & General Manager/PRS, CRIS, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi. _

5. DG, Professor/Training कै Professor/Commercial Railway Staff College, Vadodara,

6. The Principals, Zonal Railway Training Institutes, Central Railway/Bhusawal, Eastern

Railway /Bhuli-Dhanbad, Northern. Railway /Chandausi, East Central
railway/Muzaffarpur, NF Railway/Alipurduar, Southern Railway/Trichy, South
Central Railway /Moula Ali, SE Railway/Sini, North Western Railway/ Udaipur.

7. Director, Indian Railway Institute of Transport Management, Hardoi Bypass Road,
Manak Nagar, Lucknow-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 Railways 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 Bhawan, 33/1, J.L. Nehru Road, Kollkate~

14. GS, IRCA, New Delhi.

15. TC(FM) Branch, Railway Board (with 10 spares).

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E 637 may be replaced as under:-

“Permission to entrain from stations other than those from which accommodation is reserved,
~ Passengers who have putchased tickets and reserved the accommodation thereon from a

_ particular station but desire to entrain and occupy the accommodation from another station en

route may be permitted to do so provided:

(i)

(ti)
(iii)

(iv)
(v)

(vi)

A specific request is made before preparation of the first reservation chart of the train,
through

a. an application to the Chief Reservation Supervisor/Reservation Supervisor ‘on
duty’ during working hours at any computerised Passenger Reservation
‘System(PRS) center or

b. through website of Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation(IRCTC)
ot

c, through 139

The facility is for the tickets booked through com puterised PRS counters as well
as those booked through internet,

The train is booked to stop at the station at which the passenger desires to entrain and
the desired station falls on the route of the originating and terminating — stations
indicated on the ticket;

There is ho objection to the accommodation being used, if necessary, from the initial
station upto the station at which the passenger is due to entrain;

No refund is claimed for the portion of the journey not performed;

In case the boarding point is changed within 24 hours of departure of train, no refund
shall be permissible in normal circumstances; however, in exceptional circumstances
like cancellation of train, non-attachment of coach, late running of train by more than
three hours, normal refund rules shall be applicable;

However, after applying 

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