Madras Sept. 12th Government Office: Railways Have you ever cancelled tickets? A day after the train had departed? Well, if you have not. This will teach you the process, trauma, agony one has to go through before getting his refund back! The central railway owns 3 buildings in Madras (I got to know about this after this incident!). First - I filled in a regular reservation/cancellation form and stood in one of the zillion queues waiting for their trip approval from one of the counters. I took the one that had lesser queue strength. Stood there for forty-five minutes! and finally gave the man behind the counter the form and the ticket. He gave a strange look and returned it back, and added that I need to be at the second floor (this episode was in first floor) to do a cancellation of post-train-departure. On hearing this, I left to the first floor and there was a counter named Refund-blah-blah, I was also informed that I need to meet the Superintendent, to request for a refund. So, on
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