Railways to introduce e-ticketing in Shatabdis

NEW DELHI, Nov 5 (UNI) In yet another customer friendly step, Indian Railways plan to introduce e-ticketing as a pilot scheme on selected Shatabdi Express trains by allowing the passengers to print their own tickets.

The Move is intended to do away with the hard tickets.

E-Ticketing will lead to decongestion of the computerised Passenger Reservation System (PRS) counters, besides enabling the passengers to buy tickets upto the time of charting of reservations, which was not presently available on the internet ticketing system, an official release said.

Under the e-ticketing scheme, passengers will also not be required to cancel waitlist tickets, as they will be cancelled automatically and the amount due will be refunded electronically to the passenger's account.