New Delhi. Passengers traveling by trains have to stand in long queues at many stations to get general class tickets. Because of this many times she even misses her train. Keeping in mind this problem of the passengers, Railways has made special arrangements, so that the passenger can travel conveniently by taking a ticket to his destination without wasting time. This system has been started at all the stations of North Eastern Railway.
According to Pankaj Kumar Singh, Chief Public Relations Officer of North Eastern Railway, by using UTS i.e. Unreserved Ticket System app, passengers can book/renew unreserved journey tickets, platform tickets and monthly season tickets from their mobile phones within a few moments without standing in queues. .
They were doing this work secretly in the bathroom of the train, when TT knocked, they opened the gate, were surprised to see the scene inside.
Apart from this, 108 Automatic Ticket Vending Machines (ATVM) have been installed at 72 stations, which include 38 in Varanasi Division, 40 in Lucknow Division and 30 in Izzatnagar Division.
The facility of UTS mobile app is available at all the stations of North Eastern Railway, along with the facility of QR code is also available at 207 stations, passengers can book paperless travel tickets and platform tickets by scanning the QR code installed at the stations.
To book tickets through UTS app, passengers will have to install the UTS app from Play Store/App Store on their mobile and register. Passengers can make ticket payment through R-Wallet or debit/credit card or net banking or UPI. A bonus of 03 percent is also given on every recharge of R-Wallet.
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With this, passengers can book both paperless and paper tickets. Paper tickets can be cancelled, but paperless tickets are not allowed to be cancelled. On booking paper ticket, the passenger has to take the printed ticket from ATVM or station counter. Traveling on paper ticket without a printed ticket is punishable. Paperless tickets booked through this app can be shown to the TTE on the mobile phone. Through this, monthly season tickets can be renewed 10 days in advance.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: May 6, 2024, 07:01 IST