Discretionary quota in the railways reservation system
Guest
(Querist) 28 August 2012
This query is : Resolved
Now I am in receipt of the reply from the divisional railway manager commercial branch sanchalan bhavan secunderabad on my query seeking info on number of berths reserved for General,Ladies,Tatkal,High Officials of the railways,Defence,Parliament House,Foreign tourist,Duty pass, Senior citizen, Physically challeged and again for railway employees.My query was very specific confined to train No 12704 Falaknama express for AC 3 Tier left Secunderbad on 23 Apr 2012, numbers of berths booked online as well as inline confirmed or waitlisted , berths surrenedered and re allotted to wait listed passengers. In this train I booked two tickets for for my daughters more than a month in advance but waitlisted to 36/37 and a day before it was stuck permanently at 16/17.
I am attaching the details forwarded to me in the format prepared and submitted along with my query. One look at the attachment you will come to know that for two coaches of 64 berths each for falaknama trains that leave daily from SCR to Hwh daily 32 are reserved for Tatkal ( 50 %) and 16 are reserved for the so called High Official of the Railways which they have bracketed as emergency to fool us. two berths are reserved for foreign tourists,4 for senior citizens and another one for Railway employee as if 16 was not sufficient for the high officials to abuse the discretionary quota for each train.I will now be asking them to give break ups of the booking of each seats for different legs as the info is not straight forward.It is obivious why there is so muck of muck in railways reservation system as there are only 69 general berths while there are 32 tatkal and another 23 available for manipulation by the touts seating inside the reservation counters.Hey Ram..
Details of 3AC berths of Tno 12704 5ecunderabad - Howrah Falaknuma Express of 23.04.2012 Composition of 3AC class - Two Coaches with 64 berths each (Total 128 berths)
No. of Noofw/I
berths No. booked No. W/L No ofw/I cfd during
bkd No. of inline No. of No. No. No. before cfd during prep of
sl. No. of Berths online berths cfd (system) berths allotted allotted No. cancelled cancelled surrender prep of Final Final charts
No Description in3AC Internet of (e) PRS/Trml cfd of (g) RAC of (e) RAC of (g) of (f) of (h) of quota charts of (e) of (g)
a b c d e f g h i j k I m n
1 GN General 69 138 48 99 41 - - 19 11 111 7 19
2 LD Ladies - - - - - - - - - - - -
3 CK Tatkal 32 30 3 54 32 - - - - - 8 -
4 RAC RAC SEATS 4( SEATS=8) - - - - 4 4 - - - - -
Total 168 51 153 73 4 4 19 11 111 15 19
No. Allotted
No. of Cancelled toGN
berths prior to Total during Allotted to
No. of berths surrende prep of surrendere final Allotted to CK during
in 3A red charts d berths chart LD final chart
4 HO Emergency 16 9 - - 10 - 6
5 OF Defence - - - - - - -
Parliament
6 PH House - - - - - - -
7 FT Fgn Tourist 2 2 - 2
8 DP Duty pass - - - - - - -
9 55 Sr. Citizen 4 - - - 4 - -
pnyslcafly
10 HP Challenged - - - - - - -
Kaflway
11 RE Employee 1 - - - - - -
NO.cfd
No. cfd berths of berths No. of
filled at filled No. paid psgns
3A Total Berths Sec'bad later For refunded
TOT 128 125 + 53+ 34* * No of tickets not cfd of internet tickets given refunds after Final chart preparation
+ single berths can be booked in multiple legs Ex SC Guntur & Guntur - Howrah OR SC-GNT,GNTVSKP&VSKP-HWH
Guest
(Expert) 28 August 2012
Presently what help do you want from the community members of LCI?
Guest
(Querist) 28 August 2012
There are so much talk about Railway ministry officials taking corrective actions to get rid of the touts mis-using General as well as Tatkal berths in almost every train being run our great railways. None is talking about the irrationality of reserving more than 50 % of the berths for TATKAL as well as High officials of the Railways, root cause of all pervasive corruption in the railways reservation system. Nobody is talking about booking of ticket beyond any reasonable limits waitlisted knowing them that those waitlisted tickets will not be confirmed.Those are money spinners for the agents like Make my Trips as well as IRCTC , the so called mini Ratna PSU which is barely surviving with the cancellation charges deducted at source in collusion with the rail agents like Make My Trips etc.
My request to experts is how to raise the issue with the Railway Ministry/Govt at the centre to review the policy of discretionary quota for each and every train being run by the railways leading to near collapse of the reservation system online as well as Inline and to compel IRCTC, the Mini Ratna and their colluding rail agents like Make My Trip etc not to book tickets waitlisted beyond a cap based on the number of berths per coach.
Guest
(Expert) 28 August 2012
Send your suggestion to the Railway Minister with some probable practical solutions, based on the difficulties you would have felt, yourself.
Guest
(Querist) 28 August 2012
My request to experts is how to raise the issue with the Railway Ministry/Govt at the centre to review the policy of discretionary quota for each and every train being run by the railways leading to near collapse of the reservation system online as well as Inline and to compel IRCTC, the Mini Ratna and their colluding rail agents like Make My Trip etc not to book tickets waitlisted beyond a cap based on the number of berths per coach.
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Send your suggestion to the Railway Minister with some probable practical solutions, based on the difficulties you would have felt, yourself.
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Thank you very much. I would like to do just that. But needed some more "probable practical solutions from this august forum' and I am sure there will be plenty.
Sudhir Kumar, Advocate
(Expert) 28 August 2012
