Quota Codes & Meaning In Railways

In this article we are going to see about quota codes and meaning in Indian Railways for train ticket booking.This article will clearly explain about the quota codes.

Indian Railways provide 12 different types of quotas in the ticket reservation offered such as General, Ladies, Tatkal, Senior Citizen etc for their customers all over India.

Below is the list of various Quota Codes and their meanings.

Code	Description
GN	General Quota
CK	Tatkal Quota
PT	Premium Tatkal Quota
RC(RAC)	Reservation Against Cancellation
LB	Lower Berth
PQ	Pooled Quota
OS	Out Station
RS	Road Side
GNRS	General Quota Road Side
LD	Ladies Quota
SS	Female(above 45 Year)/Senior Citizen/Travelling alone
HP	Physically Handicapped Quota
YU	Yuva
HO	Head quarters/high official Quota
DF	Defence Quota
PH	Parliament house Quota
FT	Foreign Tourist Quota
DP	Duty Pass Quota
RE	Railway Employee Staff on Duty for the train

I hope this article will be more helpful to find the quota while you are booking ticket.In the next article we will briefly see the each quota in detail.Let we see on another interesting article.Comments are welcome comment us on below comment section.