law: Railways Act, 1989
  50 Supply of tickets on payment of fare. 
  (1) Any person desirous of traveling on a railway shall, upon
  
  payment of the fare, be supplied with a ticket by a railway servant or an agent
  
  authorized in this behalf and such ticket shall contain the following
  
  particulars, namely,
  (i) this date, of issue;
  (ii) the class of carriage;
  (iii) the place from and. the place to which
  
  it is issued; and
  (iv) the amount of the fare.
  (2) Every railway administration shall display the hours during
  
  which booking windows at a station shall be kept open for the issue of tickets
  
  to passengers.
  (3) The particulars required to be specified on a ticket under
  
  clauses (ii) and (iii) of sub-section (1) shall,- 
  (a) if it is for the lowest class of carriage,
  
  be set forth in Hindi English and the regional language commonly in use at. the
  
  place of issue of the ticket; and
  (b) if it is for any other class of carriage,
  
  be set forth in Hindi and English:
  Provided  that where it is not feasible to specify such
  
  particulars in any such language due to mechanization or any other reason, the
  
  Central Government may exempt such particulars being specified in that
  
  language.