Aiming to encourage paperless ticketing among railway passengers and to enhance digitization, Indian Railways has recently decided to extend the existing scheme of granting 5 per cent discount on unreserved tickets till 24 February on ticket booking through R-Wallet.

Director, Passenger Marketing of Railway Board, Shelly Srivastava recently issued a directive to all zones regarding extension of the existing scheme for the next six months.

Under this scheme, passenger will get a bonus of 5 per cent of the recharge value at the time of recharge of R-wallet in case of unreserved ticket booking through a mobile phone, informed an official.

Now-a-days, the trend of e-tickers has been increasing rapidly among mass but people are showing less interest in mobile tickets. So railway has decided to extend this scheme, aiming people to make familiar with mobile tickets, said the official.

The extension has been made for a period of six months, up to 24 February 2020, he said. The step to grant a bonus of 5 per cent at the time of recharge of R-wallet for unreserved ticket booking was taken by the Railway Ministry to encourage paperless ticketing among railway passengers.

The unreserved ticket booking can be done through the UTS mobile app, which can be downloaded by Android, iOS (Apple phones) and Windows phone users. Railway passengers using the UTS mobile app can book the train ticket on mobile phone easily, following which they can show the digital copy of the ticket when asked by a TTE.

“This mobile application also permits the passenger to show the booked ticket to the TTE without any internet connection,” he added.

Other than R-wallet, passengers also have the option to pay through other payment modes such as credit card, debit card, net banking including others, while booking unreserved tickets on the UTS application.

Besides mobile application, passengers can go to the official UTS website utsonmobile.indianrail.gov.in for recharge, he said.

Platform tickets as well as monthly railway tickets (Season tickets) can also be booked through R-Wallet, he said.