28th November, 2002
Ministry of Railways  


UNRESERVED TICKETING SYSTEM


LOK SABHA

On an average 80,000 tickets are issued every day through the recently introduced Unreserved Ticketing System(UTS) and approximately two lakh passengers are booked . However, with the facilities of advance booking upto 30 days and tickets being available from any station having UTS cluster, more and more people are expected to be benefited from this facility.

Under the pilot project 23 stations in Delhi area has UTS facility. Based on the evaluation of this project, demand pattern and availability of resources, it will be extended to other zonal railways in a phased manner. This system has the capability to issue monthly/quarterly season tickets and platform tickets.

This information was given by Minister of state for Railways Sh. Bandaru Dattatraya in a written reply to a question by Sh. Padma Sen Choudhary, Sh.Rampal Singh and Dr. Manda Jagannath in the Lok Sabha today.