e-ticketing on railways

Friday, November 05, 2004

Indian Railways have planned to introduce E-Ticketing as a pilot scheme on selected Shatabdi Express trains by allowing the passengers to print their own tickets. It is intended to do away with the hard ticket in this regard.

E-Ticketing will lead to decongestion of the computerized Passenger Reservation System (PRS) counters, besides enabling the passengers to buy tickets upto the time of charting of reservations, which is not presently available on the internet ticketing system.

In the scheme of E-ticketing, passengers will also not be required to cancel waitlist tickets, as it will be cancelled automatically and amount due will be refunded electronically to the passenger’s account.