Indian Railway refunds the full fare of the ticket when the train is late, this special right has been given to the passenger

Indian Railways is the fourth largest rail network in the world. Crores of people travel daily in passenger trains run by Indian Railways. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Indian Railways is currently providing only limited services. As the situation becomes normal, the operation of the closed trains will be started. Indian Railways is continuously progressing with the times. Indian Railways is continuously taking big steps to provide better facilities to the passengers. However, an old complaint of railway passengers is yet to be resolved. Yes, we are talking about Indian trains running late by hours.

Railway's relationship with delay is old

Indian Railways and latency have an old relationship, which is still intact. However, the Railways is making all efforts to end this delay in trains. But the railways has not got any significant success in this direction so far. Thousands of passengers have to face many problems due to the delay in trains. It is the responsibility of the Indian Railways to run all the trains on time and deliver them on time and if any train is late, the railway also returns the ticket money to its passengers. However, very few people know about this facility.

You can get full money back if the train is late

Passengers traveling in Indian Railways have some special rights. Under these rights, if your train is late, you can recover from the Railways the entire amount spent for your ticket. According to the rules of the railway, if your train is late by 3 hours or more, then you can cancel your ticket and recover the full amount. Now whether your ticket is confirmed, RAC or waiting. Let us inform that earlier these officers were available only to the passengers who booked tickets from the counter, however later it was implemented for the passengers who booked tickets online.

This work has to be done to get refund

If you are late by 3 hours or more, you can cancel your counter ticket by visiting the ticket counter of the same station and get the full amount back. If you have booked your ticket online then for this you have to fill online TDR (Ticket Deposit Receipt) form. You will get half the ticket money immediately after filling the TDR and the remaining half money is available after the train journey is completed. Let us tell you that if you cancel the ticket due to your personal reasons, then the railways will refund you the money after deducting the cancellation charge.