Monthly season tickets and platform tickets will soon go paperless as Railways is planning to launch a mobile-based application for the same shortly.
Paperless monthly season tickets and platform tickets in cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata are to be launched in next few days, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu said on Tuesday, while launching the paperless unreserved ticketing system for Delhi-Palwal suburban section here.
Prabhu also launched two other IT-based initiatives – cash/ smart card-operated ticket-vending machine at the New Delhi Railway Station and a mobile app for freight operation monitoring named as ‘Parichaalan’.
“There are about 75 lakh passengers who use monthly season tickets in Mumbai out of our total 2.3 crore daily passengers,” Prabhu said, adding, “similarly a good number of passengers travel on monthly season tickets in Chennai, Kolkata and Delhi also.” He said the move to go paperless is part of the government’s ‘Digital India’ initiative.