3rd AC Passengers Stats After Pandemic: After the Corona epidemic, there has been a significant increase in the number of passengers traveling in third AC. The figures released by the railways will surprise you.

3rd AC Passengers Stats After Pandemic: Crores of passengers travel daily through Indian Railways. Railways run thousands of trains for the passengers. Indian Railways is the fourth largest rail system in the world. Generally speaking, if someone wants to go somewhere and wants to travel a long distance. So in such a situation, the first choice of most people is to train.

In the last few years, there has been a significant increase in the number of people traveling by train. But when India, like the whole world, was also in the grip of Kovid-19. So when things became normal after the epidemic. So there was a lot of change in the number of passengers traveling by train. There has been a significant increase in the number of passengers traveling in the third AC. The figures released by the railways will surprise you.

Third AC passengers increased after Corona.

In the year 2019, when the Corona epidemic engulfed the whole world. Since then people started being cautious about cleanliness. After this, many habits in people's lives changed completely. On the other hand, if we talk about after the Corona pandemic, there has been a lot of change in the number of passengers traveling in Indian Railways. Recently, in the data released by the Railways, it came to light that after the Corona epidemic, the passengers who used to travel in sleeper trains. Those passengers have started traveling in the third AC. After Kovid, there has been a strong jump in the number of third AC passengers.

The figures will surprise you.

In the 5 years since the Corona epidemic till now, there has been a significant increase in the number of passengers traveling by AC third. In the year 2019-20, 11 crore passengers used to travel by third AC. That is, only 1.4% of the total passengers. If we talk about the year 2024-25, then there has been an increase of 19% in it. And the number of passengers has increased to 26 crores.

In the year 2019-20, Indian Railways earned a revenue of Rs 12,370 crore from Third AC. Whereas in the year 2024-25, it has increased to Rs 30,089 crore. These figures are really shocking. Let us tell you that before the Corona epidemic i.e. till 2019-20, the highest contribution to the revenue of the Railways was from the passengers of the sleeper class. But this time the revenue of the passengers of the third AC is the highest.