India’s first private train, the Tejas Express was delayed by 2.5 hours in three trips on Saturday-Sunday. After the delay complaints, IRCTC decided to pay around Rs 4.5 lakh for the maximum of 2035 passengers for the first time.

Tejas arrived late by about two and a half hours due to a signal failure at Delhi railway station after heavy rain on Saturday. Accompanying the same issue even on Sunday, the Lucknow-Delhi train was delayed for about an hour. Tejas Express is the first train in India, whose passengers get compensation for the train being late. There is a provision to get a compensation of Rs 100 for the train being late by one hour and Rs 250 for the delay of two hours or more. IRCTC administering the train will have to refund a total of three lakh 93,500 rupees to 1574 passengers of Tejas two trips on Saturday at the rate of 250 rupees per person, while 561 passengers of the first round on Sunday will have to be paid 150 rupees for delay of one hour. 

IRCTC claims that the train has managed to have no delays 99.9 percent of the time. This is the first case in almost two years, where IRCTC will have to pay such a huge amount if the train is late. Tejas was once two hours late due to fog last winter. Then more than one and a half thousand passengers had been paid for the delay. 

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