Indian Railways has amended its refund rules to double the ticket cancellation charge, in an effort to help genuine passengers get confirmed tickets. Also, there will be no refund after the departure of train and one has to get the refund four hours before the departure, according to the new refund rules.<br/><br/>The rules have been amended to help genuine passengers and to plug the scope for misuse of ticketing activity by unscrupulous elements, a senior Railway official said. The revised refund rules came into effect Thursday.<br/><br/>Railways has also decided to enable certain unreserved ticket counters to allow refund of reserved ticket.