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Couple and Coupe

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Janaki Jambunathan

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Todays Railway budget - will it look into the VIP culture of Ministers?

Enquiries showed that a family had claimed that a coupe in AC First Class of Train No. 12634 Kanyakumari-Chennai Egmore Express was allotted to a newly married couple but was cancelled in the last minute after the Minister boarded the train. However, railway sources confirmed that the coupe was allotted to the Union Minister under the emergency quota



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There is a disclaimer class in railway rules that the reservations made in counter / net , are only provisional and subject to change at the time of preparation of charts. Therefore, the couple could not have claimed the reserved seats as a matter of right.
 
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