In the face of criticism from several quarters, the Railways is mulling the restoration of senior citizen concessions but for general and sleeper classes only as per sources.
Also on the cards is tweaking of the age criteria by extending the confessional fare to those above 70 years, as against earlier 58 for women and 60 for men.
The idea is to offset the cost of granting these concessions for the Railways while retaining the subsidy for the senior citizens.
