Overview
- Recorded on the Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express, the video shows a Travelling Ticket Examiner advising seniors to book in pairs to improve lower-berth allotment.
- IRCTC’s rule prioritises lower berths for eligible seniors when they travel alone or with one other eligible passenger on the same ticket, with allocations shifting to general quota for larger or mixed groups.
- Eligibility cited by prior IRCTC guidance includes males aged 60 and above and females aged 45 and above, subject to lower-berth availability at booking.
- Indian Railways has added a “Book only if lower berth is available” option and asked TTEs to reassign vacant lower berths to priority passengers when feasible.
- Social media users praised the TTE’s clarity while noting that splitting bookings can place family members in different coaches, and no new policy change has been announced.