[Resolved]  Indian Railways — Unfair rule for reservation confirmation

Indian Railways. — Regarding advance ticket reseravations and confirmations.

Respected Editor, This is regarding a grievance with the Railways. I had booked for tickets for my wife and son from Kurnool Town to Madurai for 27th of April on the 10th of March 2008. The Train No. is 6734 Manmad to Madurai Express which runs only on Thursdays that is a weekly train. At that time it was listed for WL as 5 and 6. I was in the hope that the tickets would get confirmed. Till yesterday the chart was not prepared. The wait list was the same. Yesterday I found that the wait list has increased to 127 for general sleeper class and for 3rd Ac it was 27 for traveling between Kurnool and Madurai.. And yesterday night it was told that the chart is prepared. But the wait list is the same. And if the passenger cancels at the last moment the Railways would charge 40% of the ticket fair against cancellation. Let us take for instance that atleast 50 passengers out of 127 passengers from Kurnool to Madurai would cancel their waitlsted tickets. LIkewise the train is from Manmad, whereas so many cancellations would fetch a lot of money for the railways. I wonder why the Railways would not add one more coach for the waitlisted passengers, that too for a weekly train. What would be wrong in it. Or is it a shortcut method which the Railways follows to loot the public in the name of reservation. With lots of grievances and curses on the Railways. R. Srinivas.

The so called railways in profit is a big farce because before the present top most Railways administration the public was not put to harrasment becuse the the person would get the ticket on booking of ticket at least 60 days in advance and even the waiting list person will get his chance to get the berth there was no question of RAC not getting the berth .Now with the introduction of Tatkal and ISSUE O[censored]NLIMITED WAITING LIST TICKET for any of the train the same quota of public in same train has quietly been curtailed and the praises are all over that railway is in profit IF GOVT COULD SEE THE PLIGHT OF THE PESENGER IN ANY OF THE CLASS OF THE TRAINS.I suggest if the Railways has to make money they better add extra Trains, Extra Coaches .Then improve the quality of acommodation provide better services people may not mind shelling out xtra Rupee.May good sense prevail and public be heard and given the minimum required services like reservation RAC and Waiting list be given priority as per their Wiating list number

rerailways reservation cancel. My Tecket no is 32458292 & my set no is S6 59

my train no.2925 and train name is pashchime express
my pnr no[protected] pls confrm my seat no.