Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley during Parliament Budget Session on Wednesday announced that no service charge will be levied on tickets booked through the IRCTC website. As of now, Rs. 40 on every ticket booked in air-conditioned classes and a service charge of Rs. 20 on every ticket booked in sleeper class is levied by the IRCTC when ticket is booked through its website. “Service charges on e-tickets booked through IRCTC will be withdrawn. Cashless reservations have gone up from 58 percent to 68 percent,” Jaitley said while presenting his fourth Union Budget. Announcing the combined budget for the first time in the history of independent India, Jaitley said the total capital and developmental expenditure of Railways for 2017-18 has been pegged at 1, 31,000 crores, which includes Rs. 55,000 crores provided by the government for the budget.
