Rules to Change the Name of Passenger on IRCTC e-Tickets

Hola! 🙂 If you are holding an e-ticket but are unable to travel due to some reason, you can always transfer your reserved ticket to another passenger, provided a written application is submitted to the Chief Reservation Supervisor of the selected Railway Reservation Office at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure of the train.

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The change of the name can take place only under the following conditions:

1. The person to whose name the reservation is to be transferred is a member of the same family (i.e., father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, husband or wife).

2. Where the original passenger is a government servant proceeding on duty and an appropriate authority makes a request that the reservation be transferred to them.

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3. Where the passengers are students travelling in a group and the head of their recognised institution makes a request 48 hours before the scheduled departure of the train that the reservation made in the name of one student be transferred to another student of the same institution.


4. Reservations made in the name of one member of a marriage party may be transferred to another person on a written request to be made by the head of the party not less than 48 hours before the scheduled departure of the train.

5. Reservations made in the name of a cadet of a National Cadet Corps (NCC) group may be transferred to another cadet on a written request made by the head of the group 24 hours before the scheduled departure of the train.


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