Condition of Carrying Identity Card Extended to All Classes of
Reserved Train Tickets including Reserved Second Class and Sleeper
Class
The New Provision will Come into effect from 1st December 2012
The Move AIMS to Facilitate the Travel of Bonafide and Legitimate
Passengers and to Reduce the Scope for Misuse of Reserved Ticketing
System by Unscrupulous Elements/Middleman
The List of Prescribed Proofs of Identity has been Expanded to Cover
more Variety of Photo Identity Cards for the Convenience of the
Passengers
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 ‘Reserved
Second Class (2S)’, ‘Sleeper Class (SL)’, ‘III Economy Class (3E)’ and
‘First Class (FC)’. This change in policy will come into effect from
1st December 2012.
Further, the Ministry of Railways has also decided to expand the list of
prescribed proofs of identity to include photo identity cards having
serial numbers issued by public sector undertakings of State/Central
Government, District Administrations, Municipal Administrations and
Panchayat Administrations.
The expanded list of the prescribed proofs of identity for undertaking
journey on Tatkal ticket and other reserved classes will now be as
follows:
1. Voter Photo identity card issued by Election Commission of India.2. Passport.3. PAN Card issued by Income Tax Department.4. Driving Licence issued by RTO.5. Photo identity card having serial number issued by Central/State Government which include the following:(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.6. Student Identity Card with photograph issued by recognized School/College for their students.7. Nationalized Bank Passbook with photographs.8. Credit Cards issued by Banks with laminated photograph.9. Unique Identification Card “Aadhaar”.10. Photo identity cards having serial number issued by Public Sector Undertakings of State/Central Government, District Administrations, Municipal bodies and Panchayat Administrations.
In this way, the new provision to be effective from 1st December, 2012 will be as follows :-
“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. The existing provision of the Tatkal scheme where the
passenger is required to show the same original proof of identity as
indicated on the ticket shall continue.”
It may be mentioned that presently only the following categories of
passengers travelling in reserved classes have to produce original proof
of identity during the journey:-
- Passengers travelling on e-tickets.
- Passengers travelling on Tatkal tickets.
- Passengers undertaking journey in AC classes on the tickets issued through the computerized Passenger Reservation System (PRS) {except in III Economy -3E class}.
With the new provision, the condition of carrying one of the prescribed identity cards has now been extended additionally to other classes of travel namely - Reserved Second Class(2S), Sleeper Class(SL), III Economy Class(3E) and First Class(FC).
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.
Source : PIB
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