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Railway has promised confirm berths for every passenger anytime by 2020. To keep up to its promise the number of confirmed births has risen from 37.1 crore in 2014 to 44.7 crore in 2016 which counts to a significant 20%.

If you think that 44.7 crore seats in railways is not big enough number then think this way – except few countries that includes India and China 44.7 crore is a figure that is bigger than the population of many countries.

Railway has achieved this figure by increasing number of special trains in the last two years. As many as 70,000 special trains were ran by the railway in the last two years apart from 308 new trains. Railway also increased the frequency of many trains and also added as many as 1610 coaches to several trains.

However railway agrees that despite such bump in number of seats available to book, seat on demand will not be easy to get as with more passengers are opting to travel in air condition coaches it is difficult to match the rising demand of air condition coaches.