Respected Editor, This is regarding a grievance with the Railways. I had booked for tickets for my wife and son from Kurnool Town to Madurai for 27th of April on the 10th of March. The Train No. is 6734 Manmad to Madurai Express which runs only on Thursdays that is a weekly train. At that time it was listed for WL as 5 and 6. I was in the hope that the tickets would get confirmed. Till yesterday the chart was not prepared. The wait list was the same. Yesterday I found that the wait list has increased to 127 for general sleeper class and for 3rd Ac it was 27 for traveling between Kurnool and Madurai.. And yesterday night it was told that the chart is prepared. But the wait list is the same. And if the passenger cancels at the last moment the Railways would charge 40% of the ticket fair against cancellation. Let us take for instance that atleast 50 passengers out of 127 passengers from Kurnool to Madurai would cancel their waitlsted tickets. LIkewise the train is from Manmad, whereas so many cancellations would fetch a lot of money for the railways. I wonder why the Railways would not add one more coach for the waitlisted passengers, that too for a weekly train. What would be wrong in it. Or is it a shortcut method which the Railways follows to loot the public in the name of reservation. With lots of grievances and curses on the Railways. R. Srinivas.
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