In a major initiative to further facilitate the travel of bonafide and legitimate passengers and to reduce the scope for misuse of reserved ticketing system by unscrupulous elements/middlemen, the Ministry of Railways has decided to extend the condition of carrying original proof of identity during travel on reserved tickets issued through Passenger Reservation System (PRS) for all reserved classes including ‘Sleeper Class (SL)’,‘Reserved Second Class (2S)’, ‘III Economy Class (3E)’ and ‘First Class (FC)’.This change in policy will come into effect from 1st December 2012.
It has also been decided to expand the list of prescribed proofs of identity for undertaking journey on Tatkal ticket and other reserved classes which will be as follows:
(i)Pension Pay Order s(PPO)
(ii)Ration Card with photographs
(iii)Senior Citizen cards
(iv)Below Poverty Line (BPL) cards
(v)ESI cards (with photograph) issued for taking treatment in ESI dispensaries.
(vi)CGHS Cards (with photograph) issued to individual family members of Central Govt. employees.
Under the new policy, from 1st December, 2012, any one of the passengers booked on a PNR for undertaking journey in any reserved class has to produce any one of the above mentioned prescribed proofs of identity in original during the journey, failing which all the passengers booked on that ticket will be treated as travelling without ticket and charged accordingly.
At present, passengers travelling on a reserved ticket, issued through Passenger Reservation System for undertaking journey in any air conditioned (AC) class have to carry any one of the prescribed photo identity card with them during their journey.
The above change in the policy is aimed at facilitating the travel of bonafide and genuine passengers and simultaneously to check the scope for travel on transferred tickets.It is also considered that the proposed change shall also be useful from the security point of view.
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