SALIENT FEATURES OF EXISTING TATKAL SCHEME

SALIENT FEATURES OF EXISTING TATKAL SCHEME
   a. Tatkal booking opens at 10 AM on the previous day of journey excluding date of journey from the train originating station.

   b. The reservation under this scheme is available only upto the time of preparation of charts. 

   c. The facility of change of name is not permitted on the bookings made under Tatkal scheme. 

   d. No duplicate Tatkal tickets are issued except in exceptional cases on payment of full fare including Tatkal charges. 

   e. The reservation under this scheme can be sought by full fare paying passengers only and no passenger holding concessional ticket is allowed to avail reservation under this scheme. 

   f. Tatkal tickets are issued only on production of one of the nine prescribed proofs of identity as mentioned below and passenger should carry the same proof of identity(in original) during the journey failing which all the passengers booked on that ticket are considered as travelling without ticket and charged accordingly:- 

FACILITIES EXTENDED TO HANDICAPPED PERSONS IN RESPECT OF RESERVATION IN TRAINS.

FACILITIES EXTENDED TO HANDICAPPED PERSONS IN RESPECT OF RESERVATION IN TRAINS.

   (i) A reservation quota of two sleeper class berths has been earmarked in all trains running on non- suburban sections for handicapped persons performing their journey on handicapped concessional ticket. The person accompanying the handicapped person as escort is also allotted the berth out of this quota.

   (ii) Instructions have also been issued that in the tickets issued through Computerized Passenger Reservation System, to extent  feasible, one lower berth should be allotted to the handicapped person and the  person accompanying the handicapped person as escort should be allotted middle/upper berths near the handicapped person subject to availability of accommodation.

   (iii)After departure of the train, if there are vacant lower berths available in the train, and if any physically handicapped person booked on the authority of handicapped concessional ticket, who has been allotted upper/middle berth, approaches for allotment of vacant lower berths, the Conductor/Train Ticket Examiner (TTE) has been authorized to allot the vacant lower berth to them making necessary entries in the chart.

   (iv) Specially designed coaches known as SLRD coaches with wider entrance doors to allow a wheel chair to  enter, wider aisles and modified toilet with 4 berths, the lower two for physically challenged persons and upper berths for attendants have been attached in almost all Mail/Express  trains except Rajdhani, Shatabdi, Jan Shatabdi Express Trains and Duronto Express Trains.