What is a tatkal rail fare in india?
For benefit of passengers who have to plan their journey at the last moment and cannot secure reserved accommodation, Railways provide “Tatkal” ticket booking facility on payment of premium charges on ‘first come first served’ basis. What happens is that a certain amount of tickets (called tatkal quota) are available for booking from 5 days before the journey. Tatkal e-ticket can be booked for selected trains five days in advance upto chart preperation. e-tickets can be booked on the opening day from 8.00 am onwards. Tatkal bookings are allowed in all classes except First AC and Executive class As mentioned this is a premium service and so we have to pay extra fare (tatkal charge) per ticket Find below the Tatkal charges per passenger( in addition to normal ticket fare as on 29-dec-2005) ————————————–… CLASS Journey between 15th July and 15th Sept || Journey between 16th Sept and 14th July ======================================… 2AC 200 300 3AC 200 300 AC 75 15
