KNOW - IMPORTANT RULES REGARDING - CHANGE IN THE NAME OF PASSENGER HOLDING CONFIRMED RESERVATION
1. Save as otherwise, a berth or a seat reserved in the name of a person shall be used only by the person and shall not be transferable to any other person.
2. Chief Reservation Supervisor of important stations are authorized by Railway Administration to permit the change of name of a passenger having a seat or berth reserved in his name in the following circumstances namely :
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Where the passenger is a Government Servant, proceeding on duty and appropriate authority, makes a request in writing 24 hours before the scheduled departure of trains
(b) Where the passenger makes a request in writing 24 hours before the scheduled departure of the train that the reservation made in his name may be transferred to another member of his family, meaning, Father, Mother, Brother, Sister, Son, Daughter, Husband and Wife.
(c) Where the passengers are students of a recognized educational institution and the Head of the institution makes a request in writing 48 hours before the scheduled departure of the train, that the reservation made in the name of any student be transferred to any other student of the same institute.
(d) Where the passengers are members of a marriage party and any person deemed to be Head of such party makes a request in writing 48 hours before the scheduled departure of the train that the reservation made in the name of any member of the marriage party be transferred to any other person.
(e) Where the passengers are a group of cadets of National Cadet Corps and any officer who is the head of the group, makes a request in writing at least 24 hours before the departure of the train that the reservation made in the name of any cadet be transferred to any other cadet.
Such request will be granted only once. Regarding item no. (c), (d) and (e), such request for change in excess of 10% of the total strength of group shall not be granted.
Source - Indianrail.gov.in

Rly fails to honour own promise over construction work
— By MANISH UPADHYAY | Oct 14, 2015 01:55 am
Indore : The very slow pace of the significant construction work of railways, associated with the development of local facilities are breaking irritation among the local citizens. All the projects including construction of two island platforms, Platform no.1, connection with Laxmibai Nagar and Indore-Mhow gauge conversion, are directly associated with the augmentation of the long awaited facilities. But importantly, the railway fails to honor its own promise of completion of work.
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the facility to the passengers, the projects are directly linked with the elevation of the revenue to the railways too. Ironically the responsible officers are keeping the lackluster attitude. In view of the increasing trains’ movements from the local railway station and inability to extend them further due to the shortage of the platforms, it was decided to develop 2 new island platforms at old goods shade close to Bal Vinay Mandir. The construction of the island platforms were started from January 1, 2014 and the scheduled time limit for completion of them was June 30, 2015. But despite of crossing the time limit by 20 months, the platforms are still un-complete. According to sources, still both platforms yet not could be linked with the main line, signaling and electric work yet to complete, that could take another at least 2 months.
The gauge conversion work of 22km long Indore-Mhow is still un-complete, while the mage block for the GC work was taken on February 7 this year. It was announced to complete the GC work in 6 month, i.e. by July 7. The fact is around 30% work is still un-complete, including change of rails, signaling and electric work. This is also the fact that before taking the mega block about 30% work was completed and there is no major bridge to construct. Though, the mega block of the section had to be taken from November 1, 2014, but then DRM L. Venkataraman took the objection and said that it will hamper the revenue of the Ratlam Division.
Same time the BG work of the platform no. 1 was also started and that too completed by July 7. But the fact is that though the civil work is about to complete but the signaling and electric work is still un-complete.
PRO did not respond
When Jitendra Kumar Jayant, PRO of Ratlam Division, was contacted to get the official version, but he did not receive the call.