Crores of passengers travel daily by Indian Railways. Railways run thousands of trains for passengers. Indian Railways is the fourth largest railway system in the world. Generally, if a person wants to go somewhere and travel long distances. So in such a situation, the first choice of most people is the train.

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

In the year 2019, when Corona epidemics took the whole world. Since then people started becoming aware of cleanliness. After this, many habits of people's lives changed completely. At the same time, after the Korona epidemic, there was a lot of change in the number of passengers traveling in Indian Railways. Recently, in the data released by the Railways, it was revealed that the passengers who used to travel in sleepers in trains after Korona epidemic. Those passengers have started traveling in third AC. After Kovid, there has been a huge jump in the number of third AC passengers.

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

In the year 2019-20, Indian Railways earned revenue of Rs 12,370 crore from third AC. So in the year 2024-25 it has increased to 30,089 crores. These figures are truly shocking. Let us tell you that before 2019-20, the Korona was the highest contribution to the passengers of sleeper class. But this time the third AC passengers have the highest earnings.