Making the most of mobile platform and its increased penetration, Railways launched a mobile app for booking paperless unreserved tickets as well as platform tickets to cut queues at the reservation counters.
The initiatives are mostly targeted at the Mumbai suburban sections to begin with where 75 lakh passengers use the local train services to commute between places.
Launching the IT-enabled passenger services, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu said it’s a part of Narendra Modi’s ‘Digital India’ mission and will save passenger’s time by booking tickets at home with ease.
The paperless platform ticket programme would cover the major sections in the Mumbai suburban sections, as well as New Delhi and Hazrat Nizamuddin stations.
Prabhu also launched paperless season tickets on suburban sections of the Western Railway, Central Railway and between New Delhi and Palwal section of the Northern Railway.
A currency coin-cum-card operated automatic ticket-vending machines at various suburban stations on the Central Railway and Western Railway, was also launched on the occasion.
Most of these initiatives were announced by the Railway Minister during his budget speech this year. He said a campaign will also be run shortly to reduce the occurrence of ticket-less travelling.
The train enquiry mobile application for the iOS platform was launched too, with which more than 90 per cent of the mobile users can check the train movement live using the app.
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