New Delhi: Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday that he is considering barring private vendors and agents from booking train tickets for passengers, noting they are no longer needed when tickets can be booked by anyone on a
mobile.
Replying in Lok Sabha to a discussion on the demand for grants of the Railway Ministry, he spoke about his ministry's crackdown on touts, noting that 5,300 of them, who sold train tickets in black market, were arrested in the last one year and two months. As many as 884 booking vendors were also
blacklisted.
"I think vendors and private agents are not needed," he said, adding that he was considering barring
them.
Those who need help in buying tickets can go to "common service centres" which are run by government, he said.