IRCTC provides concessions to Senior Citizens during Train Ticket Booking. We will cover all the details about Senior Citizen Concession provided by IRCTC in detail.
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What is Senior Citizen Concession?
Indian Railways provides concession in the fares of all classes of trains such as Mail/Express/Shatabdi/Jan Shatabdi/Rajdhani/Duronto group of trains to Male Senior Citizens of a minimum of 60 years and Female Senior citizens of 58 years.
Maximum % of fare allowed for Senior Citizen Concession in IRCTC?
Currently, IRCTC provides concessions for up to 40% of the fare for Men and 50% of the fare for Women. Passengers are given options to either fully opt-out or partially opt-out from taking any concession to contribute toward Nation Development.
What is the Process to Avail Senior Citizen Concession?
Below step by step process that explains how to available Senior Citizen Concession.
- Login to IRCTC Portal using either Web App or Mobile App( Android / Apple ).
- Plan your journey from the home screen. Select From and To location, Date of Journey, and Travel Class.
- Select the Concession type as “LOWER BERTH/SR. CITIZEN“. You will receive a pop-up to confirm your selection. Please confirm.
- Click on Search Button to search for available Trains. You will see available trains displaying available seats for several consecutive dates.
- Here you can select or change to any date and Travel Class depending on available seats and click on Book Now.
- Enter the Passenger Details. For Senior citizens, you need to enter the details of the Passenger along with the correct Age and preferred Berth. Alternatively, you can select any Passenger from Master List.
- Enter Contact details, then select the payment mode and click on the Continue button.
- On the next screen, review your Details and Fare. Enter Captcha and Click on the Continue button to continue with payment.
- Select your mode of payment and upon successful payment, your seat will be reserved.
What is Forgo Senior Citizen Concession?
Eligible Senior Citizens will get a 40% discount on Fares. However, in any case, if a Senior Citizen Passenger wishes to opt out of concession and contributes towards Nation’s Development, they can do so. For this Indian Railways comes up with Forgo Senior Citizen Concession.
Senior Citizens will get 3 options.
- Avail Concession
- Forgo 50% Concession
- Forgo Full Concession
Depending on Passenger’s Selection, the effective Fare will reflect during the review before Payment.
Here passengers can Book the ticket under Senior Citizen Concession, even if they Forgo 50% or Full Concession. By this only Fare will differ, rest of the Passenger will avail other facilities of Senior Citizens.
Conclusion
Senior Citizens should aware to available the concession. We also encourage our Senior Citizens to consider Forgo option to contribute to the amount towards Nation’s Development depending on their interests.
We hope we are able to provide you with adequate information about Senior Citizen Concession. For more details please refer IRCTC Official Site.
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