1. Issued either on monthly or on quarterly basis
2. Available for travel in first class, second class
3. Also available for Vendors

Procedure for Purchase

1. Furnish a passport size photographs at the ticket issuing counter of the station from where you desire to travel.
2. Pay the prescribed fare plus Re.1 only towards the cost of identity card.
3. A season ticket and an identity card will be issued. The number of the Identity card will be indicated on the ticket. Fill in your name, address, age and sex in the prescribed column. Affix your signature on the reverse. Those caught travelling with unsigned ticket are liable to pay penalty.
4. Season ticket can be renewed either at the station of purchase or at the destination station. 

Loss Of Season Tickets And Refunds
In the event of your losing tickets, no duplicate ticket will be issued. No refund is permissible for lost or partially used season tickets.

Carriage Of Luggage On Season Tickets
You can carry only 15 kgs of luggage on first class and 10 kg on second class season tickets in passenger compartments as free allowance. 
Luggage in excess of the above quantity should be booked before commencement of journey and carried only in the vendors compartment of suburban train or in brake vans of mail/express trains. If you are found carrying without being booked/partially booked luggage enroute or at a destination station penalty will be levied as follows ---- 
Exceeding free allowance but within marginal allowance of 5kg
Normal luggage scale rate for the weight exceeding free allowance (subject to minimum of Rs.30/-) 
Exceeding free allowance and also marginal allowance of 5 kg 
6 times the luggage scale rate for the weight exceeding free allowance (subject to minimum of Rs.50/-)


Vendors Season Tickets 
This season ticket is valid on payment of one and half times of normal MST fare for travel in second class only. 
Vendors are eligible to carry luggage within a permitted free allowance of 60 kgs on the outward journey. 
Extra luggage in excess of free allowance of 60 kg will be charged at 6 times the normal rate for the weight in excess of free allowance subject to a minimum of Rs.50/-.
Over East Coast Zone the commodities for which the vendor season tickets are issued are news paper, fruits, flowers, vegetables, curd, milk, chana butter, fish, poultry,betel or panleaves, breads, mawa/khoa (dried milk) and eggs in basket of vessels.


Travel Restriction On Season Tickets 

1. Second class season ticket holders are not permitted to travel in reserved coaches (like sleeper coaches) in trains.
2. First class season ticket holders may travel in first class compartment for day journey only subject to the distance restriction otherwise applicable on individual mail / express trains. In super fast trains (admissible subject to distance restriction) they may be allowed to travel on prepayment of usual super fast surcharge. Wherever night journey is involved they may travel in first class provided they hold valid reservation.
3. The following categories of passengers will be allowed 50% concessions in 1st class and 2nd class season ticket fare for travel over suburban and non suburban section of the railway on production of the requisite certificate to the Station Master, who directly issue such tickets.
   • Blind persons accompanied by an escort.
   • Deaf & Dumb persons (both afflictions together in the same person) travelling alone or with an escort. 
   • Orthopaedically Handicapped, Paraplegic and Mentally retarded person, with one escort each.
   • Children between 5 & 12 yrs of age.
   • Students of recognized educational Institution (2nd class only)

In case of (iii) above, only a combined monthly season ticket at 50% concession for both the Handicapped / Paraplegic /Mentally retarded person and his escort will be issued. But the concession fare shall be calculated separately for each person and rounded off as per rule. The concession will not be granted on the total normal fare for the group. Free students MSTs (not QSTs) are issued to boy students studying up to class X and to girls students studying up to class XII.


Advance Issue Of Season Tickets
Holders of season tickets are permitted to purchase fresh season tickets up to ten (10) days in advance of the date of expiry of their tickets. In such cases, the advantage of un-expired period of the previous tickets will be given by extending period of availability of the fresh season ticket which will be determined from the day following due date of expiry of the previous tickets.