What is meant by Pooled Quota? And What exactly is Pooled Quota Waiting List (PQWL)? - Railways FAQ - Railway Enquiry (2024)

Jul 27 2011 (03:30)

Ticket Reservation Quotas

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Jun 04 2011 (09:51)
Blog Post# 177758-1
Guest: 84a8a021Added by: NazeerCbe^~Nov 17 2012 (17:45)

PQWL is one of the many Waiting List types that appear on reservation tickets. Practically speaking this is a Waiting List. Technically, there’s a difference between PQWL, CKWL, GNWL etc. The total seats available for reservation on a train are divided among different quotas. There’s the ladies quota, tatkal quota and general quota. Some trains also have what is called the Pooled Quota or PQ. When you book a ticket to a station for which tickets are issued from the pooled quota, then you get a pooled quota waiting list or PQWL if all the tickets available in the PQ quota have already been booked. This is similar to CKWL (Waiting list on the tatkal quota). The pooled quota is used for a bunch of stations who share a pool of tickets. These are relatively minor stations, at least as far as that particular train is concerned. For eg. if you...
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Jun 04 2011 (09:51)
Blog Post# 177758-2
Guest: 7fcd42ddAdded by: NazeerCbe^~Nov 17 2012 (17:45)

@harryharry007: Re# 177758-0
Pooled Quota WL - Maintained for pooled quota (starting station to end station). PQ is starting to end station quota, different from General quota, used to allot intermediate station passengers, preconfigured in system, which are not considered for GN, RS and RL quotas.

This is to "benefit" long distance passengers and "restrict" too many short distance passengers to "limited"

Jan 08 2011 (12:01)
Blog Post# 97391-4
Arijit SarkarAdded by: moderator^~Jul 27 2011 (07:02)

@Abhi+Nandan: Re# 97391-0
A Pooled Quota Waiting List ('PQWL') is shared by several small stations in a particular region. E.g., Tiruppur, Salem, etc., share in the quota and wait list for some trains originating from Trivandrum or Mangalore. As another example, the 2723 Andhra Pradesh Exp. has three quotas, for Secunderabad - New Delhi, Secunderabad - nagpur, and Secunderabad - Bhopal. There is also a pooled quota for passengers travelling from Secunderabad to stations beyond Bhopal but short of Jhansi. If this quota is exhausted, a passenger is placed in the pooled quota waiting list. Pooled Quotas normally operate only from the originating station of a route, and there is only one Pooled Quota for the entire run. The Pooled Quota is...
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Jan 08 2011 (12:23)
Blog Post# 97391-5
Abhi+NandanAdded by: moderator^~Jul 27 2011 (07:02)

Jan 08 2011 (12:38)
Blog Post# 97391-7
Arijit SarkarAdded by: moderator^~Jul 27 2011 (07:02)

@Abhi+Nandan: Re# 97391-5
PQWL doesnot have anything to de with GNWL.They are not assigned to same set of stations i.e. station A and B can never have both GEN and PQ Quota.

Lets say a train starts from A and go to D via B and C.It has 10 seats.Of which 7 is general and 3 dedicated seats(PQ) for intermediate station.Now, consider all

Jan 08 2011 (12:50)
Blog Post# 97391-9
DipyamanBasu~Added by: moderator^~Jul 27 2011 (07:02)

@Abhi+Nandan: Re# 97391-6
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Jan 08 2011 (12:53)
Blog Post# 97391-10
DipyamanBasu~Added by: moderator^~Jul 27 2011 (07:02)

@Abhi+Nandan: Re# 97391-5
To add with Arijit Sir has said,
Sometimes PQ Quota, RL Quota are clubbed with GN Quota to make use of the unutilised quota vacancies!
Thus u might find many PNR queries here, where say out of 4, 3 passengers have been confirmed in GN Quota, and 1 remains in PQWL or RLGN(WL).
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Jan 08 2011 (19:02)
Blog Post# 97391-11
Jhentee JivrajAdded by: moderator^~Jul 27 2011 (07:02)

@Arijit*: Re# 97391-7
This gives better idea about PQWL, and WL, when you explained with example.
I will give my own experience to add to your information regarding WL situation and Availability situation in same train , same day when 'from' stations' were different. To be specific I wished to go to Jabalpur by train: Jabalpur Express/1463⇒11463
This train comes from Veraval, via Rajkot,...
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Jan 08 2011 (19:48)
Blog Post# 97391-12
Gopalakrishnan PAdded by: moderator^~Jul 27 2011 (07:02)

Jan 08 2011 (21:22)
Blog Post# 97391-13
DipyamanBasu~Added by: moderator^~Jul 27 2011 (07:02)

@Jhentee Jivraj*: Re# 97391-11
RJT and ADI shares diff PQ with JBP! Hence the difference in availability status!
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Ahmedabad Junction/ADI to Jabalpur Junction/JBP
General Sleeper AC 3-tier AC 2-tier
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Jan 08 2011 (22:23)
Blog Post# 97391-14
Vinay KumarAdded by: moderator^~Jul 27 2011 (07:02)

@Dipyaman Basu*: Re# 97391-13
Train do have single GEN & PQ Quota. If its GNWL or PQWL, it will be same across stations having this Quota.
RL Quota differs with station, like in case, ADI & RJT have different Remote Quota.
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Jan 08 2011 (22:42)
Blog Post# 97391-17
DipyamanBasu~Added by: moderator^~Jul 27 2011 (07:02)

@Vinay Kumar: Re# 97391-14
Sir,
I understand about GNWL being same, but diff stations enroute can share diff PQ Quota.
In Rajdhanis various PQ Quota exists along with RL Quota.
As u have said, there...
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Jan 08 2011 (22:44)
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DipyamanBasu~Added by: moderator^~Jul 27 2011 (07:02)

Jan 08 2011 (23:18)
Blog Post# 97391-21
DipyamanBasu~Added by: moderator^~Jul 27 2011 (07:02)

@Vinay Kumar: Re# 97391-14
Starting Station: A
Intermediate Station: B
Destination Station: C
Terminating Station: D
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Jan 09 2011 (00:26)
Blog Post# 97391-22
Vinay KumarAdded by: moderator^~Jul 27 2011 (07:02)

@Dipyaman Basu*: Re# 97391-21
Start Station: A
Destination Station: B
Station C: Sharing GEN Quota along with A (eg. NDLS [A] & GZB[C])
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Dec 02 2010 (15:49)
Blog Post# 88856-1
VishwanathAdded by: NazeerCbe^~Nov 17 2012 (17:46)

PQWL means in railway terms either Waitlisted or CNF , never comes to RAC. be aware
"A Pooled Quota Waiting List ('PQWL') is shared by several small stations in a particular region. E.g., Tiruppur, Salem, etc., share in the quota and wait list for some trains originating from Trivandrum or Mangalore. As another example, the 2723 Andhra Pradesh Exp. has three quotas, for Secunderabad - New Delhi, Secunderabad - nagpur, and Secunderabad - Bhopal. There is also a pooled quota for passengers travelling from Secunderabad to stations beyond Bhopal but short of Jhansi; if this quota is exhausted, a passenger is placed in the pooled quota waiting list. Such remote location quotas are also provided when there is a very strong demand...
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Dec 02 2010 (15:51)
Blog Post# 88856-3
VishwanathAdded by: NazeerCbe^~Nov 17 2012 (17:46)

Contd:
"There are certain long distance trains, which have end-to-end quota. A maximum quota is allotted to the train starting station and booking is permitted from source station to the destination station. The passenger can book from starting station to destination station out of this quota. At this location a small quota is allotted for the booking of passengers from a roadside station to the other roadside station, which is called PQ (Pooled Quota). When this quota is full, PQWL starts.
your reservation request is processed by the centralised Passenger Reservation System (PRS)...
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Dec 02 2010 (16:11)
Blog Post# 88856-4
VishwanathAdded by: NazeerCbe^~Nov 17 2012 (17:47)

Contd2:
"PQWL is a small quota for remote or roadside stations for long journey. PQWL will have improve in status if other PQWL holders in front of you cancels.
Say yours is PQWL 3, and other passenger holds a ticket for PQWL 1, 2 then if he cancels his ticket then your PQWL status is upgraded to PQWL 1. And if their are any cancellations of other passengers in PQ quota. Then you fall under PQ (pooled Quota) from PQWL.
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