Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, Union Minister for Railways inaugurated Paperless Unreserved Ticketing Mobile application on the New Delhi-Palwal section, Cash/Smart Card Operated Ticket Vending Machine at New Delhi railway station. A ‘PARICHAAlAN’ app was also launched for Freight Operation Monitoring through video conferencing from Rail Bhavan, New Delhi in the distinguished presence of Harsh Vardhan, Miniter of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, Government of India, Meenakshi lekhi, MP (lok Sabha) and Sulekha Gupta, Councilor, Delhi at a ceremony held at New Delhi railway station (Ajmeri Gate side) on September 1. Senior railway officers present on the occasion were AK Puthia, General Manager, Northern Railway, Gyan Prakash Srivastava, Chief Commercial Manager, Northern Railway, Arun Arora, Divisional Railway Manager, Northern Railway, Delhi.
To move forward in line with Digital India, Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) has developed Paperless Unreserved Ticketing feature in mobile application “utsonmobile” both for android and windows platforms. This will eliminate the need for printing of unreserved tickets on ATVMs at the stations. Users can download the app from Google Play Store or Window Store.
Cash/Smart Card-operated Ticket Vending machine (CoTVM) is an unmanned self-operated kiosk which can be used by passengers themselves to buy unreserved tickets through currency/coins as well as smart cards. These kiosks have easy graphical interface for ticket transaction so that the user can operate these machines. The kiosk accepts currency/coin of all denominations of `5 and above. The machine does not accept soiled/cut/ glued/taped/colored notes and accepts currency notes of Gandhi series. CoTVMs will reduce queue length at existing ticket counters by providing an alternate unmanned ticketing solution and mode of payment.