To begin with, railway minister Suresh Prabhu introduced the mobile app for paperless unreserved ticketing for commuters in Egmore and Tambram suburban sections in Chennai under the Southern Railway.
Developed by Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS), "utsonmobile", the paperless unreserved ticketing feature in mobile application aims to eliminate the need for printing of unreserved tickets.
Initially, the facility will cover 15 stations in the suburban section of Southern Railway while the transporter plans to extend the service to suburban sections in all metros.
After booking a ticket using the app, a passenger need not take a print-out of the same and can show its soft copy on the cellphone to TTE.
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Apart from being a green initiative, the paperless ticketing system would also save time for passengers as it allows them to avoid lining up at the ticket window. An official said more than one crore such passengers travel daily and railways uses 1200 metric tones of paper every year for printing unreserved tickets.
The app, which is for both Android and Windows platforms, can be downloaded from Google Play Store or Windows Store.
The application provides necessary on-screen alerts to guide the passenger during the booking process. Payment for the ticket is done through the "railway wallet" feature in the App.
The passenger has to use the ticket within an hour of booking the ticket as per the policy of suburban sections. Also the ticket will have distinct colour scheme everyday and it cannot be forwarded to another mobile.
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