Indian Railways is preparing to convert the General Class into Air-conditioned Vehicle (AC Compartment) for the convenience of the passengers. Along with this, passengers will also get a chance to travel cheaper in AC coaches.
Indian Railways: Indian Railways is constantly exploring many possibilities for the convenience of passengers. In view of this, preparations are being made to convert the general coach into an air-conditioned vehicle (AC compartment).
Every day thousands of people travel by trains in the country, some people travel long distances, while some travelers consider it convenient to travel by trains even for short distances. In such a situation, every passenger wants to travel in AC coach but it is not possible to pay that much fare.
For the passengers traveling long distances by trains who cannot pay more fare, preparations are being made by the Railways to not only convert the general coach into AC compartment, but also the passengers will get a chance to travel cheaper in AC coach. According to the Economic Times, the fare of AC coach can be reduced by eight to ten percent.
will get such facilities
These General AC coaches will have automatic closing doors
Continuous work is being done on this by the Ministry of Railways –
First AC and General class coaches are being made in the Railway Coach Factory of Kapurthala, Punjab.
According to sources in the Ministry of Railways, at present, about 100 to 110 passengers can sit in the general second class coach. Whereas, after converting the general coach to AC, even the common passengers who could not travel by paying the higher fare, would also be able to travel in this fare easily. Let us tell you, the main plan of the Railways is to run these coaches as fully reserved coaches.
Now unreserved coaches will be removed
Except for trains like Rajdhani, Vande Bharat, other long distance trains used to have unreserved general coaches before Corona
All these coaches are being planned to be converted into reserved compartments – By converting the
general compartment into AC coaches, passengers There will be relief
now passengers travel long distances by general compartment
In fact, the priority of the Railways is to provide comfortable travel to the passengers traveling in general coaches. Along with this, the option of AC coach in low fare should also be with the passengers.
Let us tell you, recently the Railways has launched AC economy class coach at a lower fare than AC 3 tier. Passengers who travel in sleeper class will now have other options available to them.
Let us tell you, the non-AC coaches with general class in the train will be retired soon. And Indian Railways is preparing to convert the general coach to AC for long distances. However, first these coaches will be installed in superfast trains.
