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Policy instructions regarding Rajdhbani/Shatabdi Express Trains

Commercial Circular No. 30 of 2000 · 2000-06-07
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Circular numberCommercial Circular No. 30 of 2000
Date2000-06-07
TypeCommercial Circular
Topictrain-services
CurrencyHistorical — likely superseded
Official PDFindianrailways.gov.in

Summary

Policy instructions regarding Rajdhbani/Shatabdi Express Trains Duty/Privilege and Post-retirement Complimentary Pass quota Dy! Privilege and Post-retirement Com limentary Pass quota by Shatabdi Express trains

Text of the circular

Government of India(Bharat Sarkar)
Ministry of Railways(Reil Maotralaya)
(Railway Board}

RRA

प०.98/10.1/9/09 ...................... पल्‍्ण लाए, Dated: 07-06-2000

The General Managers(Commercial & Personnel),
All Zonal Railways.

(Commercial Circular No. 30 of 2000 )

Sub: Policy instructions regarding Rajdhbani/Shatabdi Express
Trains.

Instructions have been issued from time to time regulating the
travel of the passengers/railway servants on Rajdhani/Shatabdi Express
trains. The matter has been considered in the Ministry of Railways and it
has been decided to issue’ a comprehensive guidelines on the above
aspects to be followed by Zonal Railways

- 2 Whenever Rajdhani/ Shatabdi Express train is introduced on Zonal
Railways, the allotment of reservation quota in that train will be done by
Zonal Railways themselves .

. Whenever any Rajdhani/Shatabdi Express train is given new
stoppage, the allotment of quota in this case will also be done by Zonal
Railways

‘3. Rajdhani and Shatabdi Express trains are intercity trains
connecting major cities. The passengers in these trains should be
booked:- oO

> End-to-end, i.e., from originating station to destination station
against general quota

> From intermediate stations to destination station to the extent of

quota earmarked at intermediate stations

> From originating station to intermediate stations to the extent of
quota earmarked for that intermediate station

> To meet the demand of the passengers from intermediate station to
' intermediate stations, railway should conduct a survey to assess

the requirements and earmark a fixed quota, if necessary, against

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which booking from intermediate stations ‘to intermediate stations
will be done on first-come-first-served basis. व

| 4, In order to have uniformity, various quotas will be defined in

different coaches as under :-

Type of Quotas | Class
Rajdhani Exp.Trains 3AC  2AC IAC
EQ, Defence, PHBO, FT _.... AS-3 A-1  -H-1
& Duty Pass quota.
Roadside quota.  AS-4 A-2 H-1
Shatabdi Exp. Trains Exp. Trains - CC EC
EQ, Defence, PHBO, FT. 6 C-3 H-1 .

Duty pass quota.

Roadside quota. C-4 H-1

5S. Separate waiting-list for d destination and intermediate stations. .

Separate waiting lists should be maintained for each intermediate
‘Stations and destination stations. The booking in these trains for
intermediate stations should be done to the extent of quota earmarked for
these stations and thereafter. passengers be put on the waiting list. The
limit of waiting list for intermediate stations should be decided by the
railway themselves. oo

6. Procedure for allotment of vacant accommodation at the time of
breparation of charts at the originating station. :

In case berths/seats are available for the terminating/intermediate
stations at the time of preparation of charts, the same should be released .
in favour of passengers on the waiting list in order of distance from
Starting station i.e. for the passengers on the waiting list for the farthest
point will be cleared first and so on. This allotment should be done only -

. at the time of preparation of charts and should be included in the chart
preparation programme itself. For example, in case the accommodation in
2952 Rajdhani Express is available for BCT, it will be allotted to wait.
listed passengers of Baroda, Ratlam, Kota in this order. Similarly, if the
accommodation is available for Baroda, the same will be released to wait-.
listed passengers for Ratlam, Kota in the same order. While permitting
such passengers from intermediate stations, the train staff will first allow

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them as per their priority in waiting list and thereafter on first-come-first-
served basis

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Procedure to be followed at the th & originating station for allotment of

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(a) At the current counter

(i) If the current counter is located far away from the platform
from where .the train is scheduled to leave, the reserved
accommodation vacant after the p

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