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Budget 2025: Tickets of trains like Rajdhani, Duronto, Shatabdi will be available for half the price! Government will provide relief to senior citizens in railway budget – Budget 2025 Express Duanto Rajdhani SHATABDI Train Ticket Get in Half Price for Senior Citizen Covid Railway Budget

Budget 2025: Senior citizens have many expectations from the budget. The demand for senior citizens is more about the railway budget. Senior citizens had a 50 per cent discount in ticket booking of trains before Kovid. This discount was discontinued at the time of Kovid. Now the country has emerged from Kovid and things have become normal. But the exemption given to senior citizens has not started getting yet. Senior Citizen Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Modi government are demanding the same. They are demanding a 50 per cent discount in the ticket booking of trains.

By 2019, senior citizens used to get discounts on train ticket

By the end of 2019, Indian Railways used to give a discount to senior citizens on ticket booking of trains like Mail, Express, Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto. Men aged 60 years or older gave 40% discount on tickets and 50% for women aged 58 years or older. For example, if the first AC ticket of Rajdhani Express was Rs 4,000, then senior citizen woman got the ticket of Rs 2,000 or senior citizen male for Rs 2,300.

Service of exemption in train ticket closed in Kovid

During the Kovid-19 epidemic, the government stopped the exemption on railway ticket in 2020. The facility was not resumed even after the epidemic was over. Senior Citizens say that they have Income Limited after retirement. In such a situation, they should get a discount on the tickets of trains. So that, it can be easy and cheaper for them. He is demanding to restore this exemption.

Expectations from budget 2025

On 1 February 2025, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be the first full budget of the third term of the Modi government. Last year’s budget was 9 months old. Now the budget to be presented on 1 February 2025 will be a budget of 12 months of financial year 2024-25. Senior citizens believe that the government can include their demand in the budget. This will benefit millions of senior citizens and their journey will become economical. It will now be seen whether the Finance Minister fulfills this expectation of senior citizens or not.

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