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Platform tickets on cellphones soon
While the cost of a platform ticket is low — Rs 10 each currently — officials expect the vendors to make up the difference through the high volume of transactions involved.
The long, winding queues to buy platform tickets in railway stations may soon start to shrink — the government is moving to make them available online. The options under consideration include allowing platform tickets to be purchased via mobile phones or through the IRCTC portal, a Railways Ministry official told The Indian Express.
The acknowledgment of payment, which will be sent to the buyer’s mobile phone, can be shown to the personnel manning the gates at the stations, the official added. “IRCTC will be given the detailed modalities to be worked out once the Railway Board approves the proposal.”
Source :The Indian Express.
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