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GENERAL RULES FOR CONCESSION

no.tcii/2941/11/policy · 2012-10-26
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Circular numberno.tcii/2941/11/policy
Date2012-10-26
TypeCommercial Circular
Topicconcessions
CurrencyHistorical — likely superseded

Summary

(a) Break of journey en-route shall not be allowed on a concession ticket for a

Text of the circular

GENERAL RULES FOR CONCESSION 
The detailed rules, procedures, entitlement, purposes, etc for grant of concession are 
contained under different serial numbers in IRCA Coaching Tariff, Part I (Vol. II) 
which can be purchased from the General Secretary, I.R.C.A., Chelmsford Road, New 
Delhi. For any complaints or clarifications, the General Manager or the Chief 
Commercial Superintendent of the concerned Zonal Railway Administration should be 
approached. The important general rules for concession, in reference to the above 
mentioned Tariff, are as under: 
 
1. (a) All concessional fares shall be calculated on the basis of fares for Mail/Express 
trains irrespective of the type of train, i.e. Mail or Express or Passenger, by which the 
passenger travels.  
 
(b) Concession shall not be granted for any journey the cost of which is borne by the 
Central or State Government or a local authority or a Statutory body or a Corporation or 
a Government Undertaking or a University.  However, the students participating in the 
tournaments held or recognized by the schools or universities will be eligible to the 
concession.  
 
(c) Concession shall be admissible only in respect of basic fares. No concession is 
admissible in respect of other charges, viz. super fast surcharge, reservation fee, etc. 
However, in cases where concession has been allowed in Rajdhani/Shatabdi/Jan 
Shatabdi trains, the concession shall be admissible in the total charges (including 
catering) of these trains. 
Ministry of Railways have decided that “concession wherever admissible and child fare 
in the case of Rajdhani/Shatabdi/Jan Shatabdi/Duronto express trains may be granted 
only in the basic fare like other mail/express trains and all other charges (catering 
charges, reservation charges, supplementary charges like superfast surcharge, enhanced 
reservation charges, taxes (if any) shall be collected in full” these changes will come 
into force for tickets purchased for the journey from 01-04-2013. (vide railway board 
circular no.tcii/2941/11/policy dated 26.10.2012) 
(d) The concessions will be admissible subject to the minimum distance of 300 Kms, 
except in the case of students, blind, orthopaedically handicapped/paraplegic persons, 
TB and Cancer patients, Kidney patients, non-infectious leprosy patients, mentally 
retarded persons, thalassamia major disease patients, Heart, Hemophilia Patients, War 
Widows, Widows of IPKF, Widows of martyrs of operation Vijay 1999 (Kargil), 
Widows of defence personnel killed in action against terrorists & extremists, National 
Awardee Teachers, Shram Awardee Industrial Workers, Widows of Policemen killed in 
action against terrorists & extremists, Senior Citizens, Allopathic Doctors, parents 
accompanying the National Bravery Awardee child, Police Medal Awardees, 
Dronacharya Awardees Coaches, Sportsmen, Unemployed Youths for attending 
interviews for jobs, and their escorts, wherever admissible under the rules, in whose 
case the above mentioned distance restriction will not apply. However, the distance

restrictions otherwise applicable to general public for travel in each individual train will 
apply for issue of concessional tickets also.  
2. Only one type of concession is admissible at a time at the choice of passenger and no 
person is allowed two or more concessions simultaneously.  
3. (a) Break of journey en-route shall not be allowed on a concession ticket for a 
journey for a specific purpose viz. a student travelling to/from an examination Centre, a 
Cancer patient travelling to/from a hospital, a professor travelling to/from a Conference, 
etc. It is allowed only where a break of journey is a natural event.  
(b) Passengers breaking their journey are required to have their ticket endorsed from the 
Station Master where journey is broken.  
(c) Passengers terminating journey en route, must surrender their ticket at the station 
where the journey is terminated. Refund for the untravelled portion on such 

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