Railway Rules: Will travel in AC even if tickets are booked in sleeper coach! Know what the rules are

Railway Rules: Many times it happens during train travel that you have booked a ticket in sleeper class, but your berth is confirmed in AC3. Now instead of being happy with this kindness of Railways, you may also be worried about whether you will have to pay some additional charges for this. Also the question would be that how did the Railways become so kind to you? So let us tell you that this favor of Railways is a special scheme, whose name is – Auto Upgradation Scheme. Railways has thoughtfully made this plan for its own benefit, so that no seat remains vacant in the train.

What is this scheme?

In fact, the higher class coaches of the train like AC1, AC2 often remain empty due to expensive fares. In such a situation, Railways had to suffer huge losses due to these berths remaining vacant. After much deliberation, Railways launched this auto upgrade scheme, in which if any berth in the upper class remains vacant, then the passenger one class below is upgraded to that class.

How does this scheme work?

We can understand this scheme in such a way that suppose there are 4 seats vacant in First AC of a train and 2 seats are vacant in Second AC, then the tickets of some passengers of Second AC will be upgraded and they will be given First AC and Second AC. Third AC passengers will be upgraded. After this, some seats will become vacant in Third AC, in which waiting list passengers will get place in Third AC. In this way, no berth will go vacant in any coach of the train.

Whose ticket gets upgraded?

While booking tickets, IRCTC asks you in an option whether you are ready for auto upgrade on your ticket. If you choose yes option then your ticket will be upgraded and if you choose no option then no. If the passenger does not choose any option then it will be considered as yes.

Will your PNR change?

There is no change in the PNR of a passenger when his ticket is upgraded. For any kind of information related to his travel, he will use his original PNR only. At the same time, if he cancels his ticket after the ticket is upgraded, he will get the refund as per his original ticket and not as per the upgraded class.