Dear Sir/ Madam,
With due respect I would like to bring to your notice that I am resident of Allahabad and by profession I hold degree of Chartered Accountant and presently working in Hyderabad. To commute from my home town to Hyderabad I have only one train available and that is Patna Sec Express (7091/7092) and this train run twice weekly from both sides.
There are many residents from North India who travel to Hyderabad and due to low running per week of this train you can see number of passengers travelling the Sleeper class without confirmed reservation, even though those people pay full ticket amount they hardly get a seat to rest in journey of 28 Hrs. Someone would raise question that why dont you cancel your reservation and book next available day train, so in order to match my point I woould like to inform that reservation starts 90 days before of actual travel for withing 2 days of opening you cant get AC II confirmed tickerts and withing 7-10 days you cant get Sleeper tickets, so its very hard for an Individal to Plan 90 days and even then get confirmed tickets.
He gets whatever is available and carries is body in all 28 hrs (min) jouney without a seat even by Paying full ticket amount.
Its not that Railway is not aware of the fact, even if we talk to railways officials they say yes this is one of the trains that has most stringent issues with reservation but still they are not coming up to increase frequecy of this. Mr Lalu Yadav did announced in march to run this train daily but 5 months have passed and still people could not see any progress. Thousands of people are using Railways facility and get benefit from railways but this is the place where someone will find himself cheated.
I have some hopes on you that you will pose some serious thoughts but if for any reason your forum is not able to covers my matter then could you please forward my message to someone who can look into the matter seriouly.
Jai Hind.
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