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Rail Budget 2016: New rule for unreserved train tickets from March 1

Facility for issuing paperless platform tickets through mobile phones is already available on 29 stations

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Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu with MOS for Railway Manoj Sinha and other Railway Board members giving final touches to the Railway Budget 2016-17 at Rail Bhawan in New Delhi. Photo: Dalip Kumar
Press Trust of India New Dehi
Last Updated : Feb 24 2016 | 7:28 PM IST
An unreserved train ticket for travelling upto 199 km distance will no longer be valid after three hours of purchase of the ticket as railways has formulated a new rule to be effective from March 1, Lok Sabha was told today.

Unreserved tickets for distances upto 199 km, the journey has to be started from the originating station within three hours of the issue of tickets or upto the departure of first train for the destination whichever is later, Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha said in a written reply.



He said the return journey facility for distance upto 199 km for unreserved tickets has been withdrawn.

Sinha said the facility for issuing paperless platform tickets through mobile phones is already available on 29 stations.

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First Published: Feb 24 2016 | 4:22 PM IST

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