COMPUTERISED UNRESERVED TICKETING
The project of computerized
Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS), introduced in Delhi area of
Northern Railway during 2002-2003 covering all 23 stations at
90 counters, will be extended to Eastern, East Central, North
Eastern, Northeast Frontier and remaining stations of Northern
Railway in a phased manner in the current financial year 2003-2004.
The UTS is similar
to the computerized Passenger Reservation System (PRS). Under
the scheme, the tickets can be purchased 30 days in advance and
the passenger need not necessarily buy the tickets from the stations
where the journey is to commence.
This project
aims at giving flexibility to the passengers for purchasing tickets
on a convenient date and time which will reduce the queue lengths
at the train originating stations where normally there is a heavy
rush for the unreserved tickets before train departure.
In addition,
the scheme intends to cover 12 million unreserved passengers daily
in order to decongest over crowding at current ticket counters
and to make journey pleasant.
