Ticket confirmed, no train: fog hasn’t started yet, yet suddenly two dozen trains canceled

The fog hasn’t started yet. But, due to fog, East Central Railway has canceled the operation of two dozen pairs of long distance trains from December to February. In this, one and a half dozen pairs of trains have been completely canceled and more than half a dozen travel days have been cut short. In such a situation, problems have arisen in front of people who had made reservations in trains three to four months ago. Especially more for those people, who have booked tickets to go to a wedding somewhere. Because, just before the journey, confirmed tickets are not available in any train.

The younger son of Omprakash Gupta of Dumri is married in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh. For this, he had taken reservation of 54 seats in sleeper three months ago for traveling in Freedom Fighter on December 1, but now he is disappointed due to cancellation of the train. Now they are worried about how to make arrangements to take the wedding processions in a hurry. This pain is not only theirs. Many people like him are reaching every day to cancel the tickets. Omprakash says, 36 thousand rupees were spent on making reservation three months ago. All the seats were confirmed. Now they have to spend 50-60 thousand rupees due to the cancellation of the train. Confirm ticket is not available in this also. Due to this, there will be trouble in commuting.

Railways stopped operation of many trains from December to February due to fog

Big question: why reservation when train is canceled every year
It is not that for the first time the Railways has canceled the operation of trains due to possible fog. Rather, every year from October-November itself, it starts announcing the cancellation of trains running in December, January and February. The reason given is that trains get delayed due to fog. But, the big question is that when the railways know that there will be fog every year during these three months. So why ticket reservation is done four months in advance.

Now getting long waiting on booking tickets
In fact, these days being the season of weddings, people had booked tickets for commuting two-three months in advance. But now trains are being canceled due to possible fog and the distance of some is getting reduced. At the same time, the routes of some are being changed. People are facing problems due to this. Due to train cancellation a week before the journey, confirmed tickets are not available in other trains as well.

54 tickets canceled when queued 9 times
Not only this, even after the cancellation of the train, the passengers have to go round the counter to cancel the ticket. According to Omprakash, he stood in line nine times to get 54 tickets cancelled. The same situation remained for taking tickets in the second train. He had to stand in line several times to get a new reservation.