(1)Any person desirous of travelling on a railway shall, upon payment of the fare,be supplied with a ticket by a railway servant or an agent authorised in thisbehalf and such ticket shall contain the following particulars, namely:--
(i)the date of issue;
(ii)the class of carriage;
(iii)the place from and the place to which it is issued; and
(iv)the amount of the fare.
(2)Every railway administration shall display the hours during which bookingwindows at a station shall be kept open for the issue of tickets to passengers.
(3)The particulars required to be specified on a ticket under clauses (ii) and(iii) of sub-section (1) shall,--
(a)if it is for the lowest class ofcarriage, be set forth in Hindi, English and the regional language commonly inuse at the place of issue of the ticket; and
(b)if it is for any other class ofcarriage, be set forth in Hindi and English:
Providedthat where it is not feasible to specify such particulars in any such languagedue to mechanisation or any other reason, the Central Government may exempt suchparticulars being specified in that language.