{"id":659635,"date":"2026-03-25T09:54:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659635"},"modified":"2026-03-25T09:54:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:24:02","slug":"railways-makes-ticket-cancellation-rules-stricter-brings-stricter-norms-for-quality-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/railways-makes-ticket-cancellation-rules-stricter-brings-stricter-norms-for-quality-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Railways makes ticket cancellation rules stricter, brings stricter norms for quality construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: A last-minute change in plans will cost you dearly, as the railways have announced a revised rule linking refunds to the timing of ticket cancellations before the scheduled departure of trains. As per the new rule, passengers who cancel their tickets less than eight hours before departure will receive no refund, while cancellations made between eight and 24 hours before departure will result in a 50% deduction.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the changes as a part of ongoing reforms, railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tuesday that under the new norm there will be 25% deduction for tickets cancelled between 24 and 72 hours before train\u2019s departure while a minimal amount will be deducted for cancellation before 72 hours. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: A last-minute change in plans will cost you dearly, as the railways have announced a revised rule linking refunds to the timing of ticket cancellations before the scheduled departure of trains. As per the new rule, passengers who cancel their tickets less than eight hours before departure will receive no refund, while cancellations made between eight and 24 hours before departure will result in a 50% deduction. Announcing the changes as a part of ongoing reforms, railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tuesday that under the new norm there will be 25% deduction for tickets cancelled between 24 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}