A Cryptic Right to Information (RTI) response by the Indian Railways, stating that restoring concessions to all categories of passengers was not desirable due to losses, has triggered a fear that senior citizen concessions may not be restored at all. Railways has rolled back most restrictions implemented during the COVID-19-induced lockdown and only a handful remain to be rolled back.

Concessions to all categories of passengers, except for four categories of Divyangjan and 11 categories of patients and students, had been withdrawn from March 20, 2020 to discourage people from travelling in view of the pandemic and the COVID protocol.