Carrying identity cards mandatory for train passengers

At present only passengers travelling on e-tickets, Tatkaltickets and those undertaking journey in AC classes on the tickets issued through the computerised Passenger Reservation System (PRS), except in III Economy -3E class, are required to carry identity cards.

With the new provision, the condition of carrying one of the prescribed identity cards has now been extended additionally to other classes of travel - Reserved Second Class (2S), Sleeper Class(SL),III Economy Class(3E) and First Class (FC), an East Coast Railway (ECoR) release said.

The change in the policy is aimed at facilitating the travel of bonafide and genuine passengers and simultaneously to check the scope for travel on transferred tickets, it said, adding it is also considered that the proposed change shall also be useful from the security point of view.