NewDelhi: The Indian Railway have recently declared another major alteration in their ticket booking possibility; the next ARP will be sixty days rather than one hundred and twenty days. Officials said that to promote the production sector, the Ministry of Railways recently announced a new effective date for ARP, which is November 1, 2024.
This means that whereas before you had to wait for the ticketing roll to open for the train you wanted to travel on before being able to book for the journey, this has now advanced to a point whereby you can book for your journey up to 60 days to the day of the journey. The mechanism of taking bookings 120 days in advance shall still be effective 31 October 2024 for all reservations made under the current practice. There will be no limitations in the following bookings as per the new rules.
Special Trains Unaffected
However, the Ministry was keen to point out that while the change will affect most trains the essential short notice express trains which includes prestigious Taj Express and Gomti Express will maintained their previous shorter ARP. Also, foreign camp, whereby outsiders are currently entitled to book tickets one year ahead of time, imposed no restrictions on their reservation rights.
Some of the changes that the Center made to the rule are prepared below The Center states that the rule change is aimed at improving the efficiency of managing bookings and demand. However, many passengers will have to keep abreast with these changes since they can no longer make bookings several months in advance.
The latest change by the Indian Railways is seen to move it closer to being capable of managing the ticket sales and the trains’ capacities for the millions of passengers for whom the railway service is recognised to provide every day.