Today's Cancelled Trains
08-07-2014
NORTHERN RAILWAY LAUNCHES GO-INDIA SMART CARDS FOR HASSLE-FREE PURCHASE OF ALL MODES OF RAIL TICKETS AT NEW DELHI STATION
(NOMINATED UTS & PRS TICKETING COUNTERS OPENED FOR GO-INDIA SMART CARD AT AJMERI GATE SIDE)
As Smart Cards are increasingly becoming an important scheme of financial transactions of general public, the Ministry of Railways has also tuned in to this consumer transaction mode by launching the Go-India Smart Card. Introduced as a pilot project, this value proposition would cover 11 stations of the New Delhi-Mumbai and New Delhi-Kolkata sections spread over six Zonal Railways. on Northern Railway, New Delhi has been identified as one of the centres under this Pilot for the Go-India Smart Card project. Under this project, two counters one for Unreserved Ticketing System(UTS) & one for PRS(Passenger Reservation System) have been made operational towards Ajmeri Gate side at New Delhi and a separate counter for issue of Go-India Smart card has been opened. The passenger can purchase UTS ticket through Go-India Smart card from the nominated UTS counter and also can purchase PRS Ticket from Go-India PRS counter installed adjacent to PRS current reservation counter towards Ajmeri Gate side.
Go-India Smart Card will be used for Indian Railway application i.e. Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS), Passenger Reservation System (PRS) and Retiring Room (RR) counters and existing Automatic Ticket Vending Machines (ATVM)s. Go-India smart card will be a separate card from existing ATVM smart card. Go-India smart card can be used across UTS, PRS, RR and existing ATVM of Indian Railway but existing ATVM smart card can be used only across ATVMs of that region. Go-India smart card is interoperable across various applications and UTS thin clients can work in disconnected mode for 3 days hence issuance of duplicate card will be allowed only after 3 days i.e. 3 days excluding the day to mark card for duplicate. Validity of Go-India smart card will unlimited but, if no transaction are done within 6 months on Go-India smart card then smart card will be temporary deactivated which can be activated again by paying Rs. 50/- as activation charge. At the time of issuance/recharge of Go-India smart card, actual amount will be top-up on smart card and discount will be given on face value of UTS tickets instead of existing bonus logic used for ATVM smart card. Currently, passengers are allowed to take non-concessional journey ticket, platform ticket and renew non-concessional season ticket through ATVM. However, there is no bonus advantage given on renewal of season ticket and journey tickets in non-suburban section beyond 150 KMs through ATVM kiosks. on Go-India Smart card at ATVMs/UTS counters, instead of giving bonus advantage, discount (5%) will be given on ticket face value and passenger can take non-concessional season ticket through UTS counters also but as per policy, passenger will get discount on suburban journey ticket, non-suburban journey ticket upto 150 KMs, platform ticket only, BPT ticket, miscellaneous ticket and money receipts will not be allowed through Go-India smart card. In case of PRS/RR tickets, there is no bonus/discount advantage given at the time of booking and during booking/issuance of ticket, ticket fare/amount will be directly debit from the Go-India smart card.
Tuning into the life-style changes of the public, the Go-India Smart card would afford rail passengers advantages like avoiding problems of Coin Change and save valuable passenger time (queue time).
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