No service charge on e-rail tickets booked through IRCTC
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his Union Budget speech on Wednesday said that service charge levied on booking e-rail tickets through the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) will be withdrawn. Further, he said that 500 rail stations will be made disabled-friendly by providing lifts and escalators. Further, all coaches of railways will be fitted with bio-toilets by 2019.