Parl panel criticizes railways’ move to sell 50% of tatkal tickets under ‘dynamic pricing mechanism’

19 Dec 2014 Evaluate

Quashing Railway's move to sell 50% of the tatkal tickets under ‘dynamic pricing mechanism’, a Parliamentary panel on Thursday urged the railways for institutionalizing the concerns of poor by reducing the premium on such tickets to a ‘minimum essential level’ as the system was legitimizing inequality.

The committee pointed that only those consumers, who had access to internet and were willing to shell out premium, were getting confirmed berths without any hassles. It asserted that percentage of advanced reservation, which is higher, should be reduced to a feasible and sustainable level in the greater interest of the travelling public.

The committee also suggested that a certain quota restriction should be put on ticket reservation bookings by internet so as to provide a better equitable opportunity for the poor, disadvantaged and deprived classes of society having no access to internet, thus making them available the benefit of ticket reservation in a more fair and just manner.

Further, the panel, taking serious note of 24 Rail Travellers Service Agents (RTSA) operating without furnishing any license fee, security deposits and without any liability, demanded an appropriate enquiry against the officials’ responsible and disciplinary proceedings against them. The committee sought details of the measures taken in chronological order to get the stay vacated and steps being taken presently to remedy the situation.

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