Indian Railways has launched Vikalp scheme to facilitate waitlisted passengers to get an alternative train accommodation.
The scheme has been launched on pilot basis in trains running on Delhi-Lucknow and Delhi-Jammu sectors for 6 months and option will be limited to Mail and Express trains.
With this scheme, Indian Railways aim to achieve the twin objectives
- Providing confirmed accommodation to waitlisted passengers.
- Ensure optimal utilisation of available accommodation for these passengers.
Under this scheme
- Waitlisted passengers will get confirmed accommodation in next alternative train if they opt for it while booking their tickets online.
- Once they opt for it passengers will get SMS alert on their mobile phone about getting confirmed accommodation in alternative train.
- No extra charges will be paid passenger to avail this scheme or any refund provided for the difference of fare.
- In the alternative train, the name of passenger who has been provided accommodation will not figure in the waitlisted charts of their original train.
- A separate list of passengers transferred in alternative train will be pasted along with the confirmed and waitlist charts.