Railway charged Rs 11.17 crore for superfast trains, but were delayed upto 95%

Agra | Saturday | 22nd July, 2017

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The findings revealed, that trains such as Kolkata-Agra cantt SF was late 138 days out of 145 between 2013-16. "He said, "There is no such rules or policy to refund money if train is delayed, but when a passenger files a TDR (Ticket deposit against reservation) against a train delayed for than three hours, then a refund is possible." Some the prominent factors are the maintenance of track, signal glitch, emergency brakes, accidents and other contributes in late operations of railways. Similarly, Jaipur-Allahabad SF was late 68.34 % out of 578 days of operations between 2014-16. Other trains such as Lucknow-Agra cantt was late 58.99 % out of 851 days, Chhatrapati Shivaji- Hyderabad was late on 682 days out of 1055, Guntur-Secundrabad was late 41.33% out of 1096 days..