Revised IRCTC Cancellation Charges and Refund Rules

Now you cannot wait till 24 hours before departure of train to cancel the train ticket if you want to have full refund of ticket fare (except clerkage charges) because Indian Railways has revised its refund rules so the cancellation charges and the time to cancel the tickets has been revised.

Indian railways has revised the refund rules after a long period of 15 years, Many changes have occurred in Ticketing system of Indian Railways. The revised rules are aligned to help travellers who are more serious about travelling and discourage people who book extra tickets as a option?

Here are the revised irctc refund rules and cancellation charges

IRCTC Refund Rule	revised	previous
Cancellation charges of Rs 30 (second class), Rs 60 (sleeper class), Rs 90 (3AC), Rs 100 (2AC) and Rs 120 (1AC)	more than 48 hrs before scheduled departure of train	more than 24 hours before scheduled departure of train
Cancellation charges of 25% of the fare	less than 48 hours and more than 6 hours	less than 24 hours and more than 4 hours
Cancellation charges of 50% of the fare	less than 6 hours and more than 2 hours	less than 4hours up to chart preparation
Refund after departure of train on RAC / Wait listed tickets.	no refund allowed after 3 hrs	< 200 km - 3 hrs <500 km - 6 hrs >500 km -12 hrs
Refund after departure of train on Reserved tickets	no refund allowed after 2 hrs	<200 km - 3 hrs <500 km - 6 hrs >500 km -12hrs
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It is very well understand from the above table that even RAC /Wait listed tickets cannot be cancelled after 3 hours after departure of train. this rules are applicable from 01 july 2013