Indian Railways is the fourth largest rail system in the world. About 2.5 crore passengers travel by Indian Railways every day. This number of passengers is equal to the population of a country like Australia. Most of the passengers traveling by train prefer to travel by booking tickets in reservation. Passengers get many facilities in reservation AC coach or sleeper coach.
And their journey also becomes very easy. But sometimes when there is a lot of demand for tickets. In such a situation, after making a reservation, you get a ticket in waiting. There are many types of waiting in railways. In which there are also RSWL and CKWL. Which of these waiting list tickets is confirmed and which one is not? What are its rules, let us tell you.
What is the RSWL waiting list?
Whenever a passenger books a ticket in Indian Railways. And when the ticket is not confirmed, the ticket goes to the waiting list. There are a total of seven types of waiting in railways. These have code names like GNWL, RLWL, PQWL, RLGN, and RSWL. If you have booked a ticket and your ticket is on the RSWL waiting list.
RSWL waiting list means roadside waiting list. When a passenger books a ticket, he books for the roadside stations near the starting station of the train, i.e. the station from where the train departed. Then this waiting list is given. However, the chances of the ticket getting confirmed in this are very low.
What is the CKWL waiting list?
When people are not getting confirmed tickets in general reservations in Indian Railways, then they use the Tatkal quota and book tickets under it. But even when the ticket is booked in the Tatkal quota, the ticket does not get confirmed. So there also it goes into waiting.
Then in such a situation CKWL waiting list is given. In the CKWL waiting list, CK is the code for the Tatkal quota. Let us tell you that in CKWL i.e. Tatkal waiting list the chances of a ticket getting confirmed are the lowest.
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