Train ticket reservation
on Internet, where reserved tickets can be home delivered, has
been started through the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism
Corporation (IRCTC).
This project has
commenced in Delhi and has since been extended to major cities
viz. Ahemedabad, Bangalore, Baroda, Bhopal, Chennai, Chandigarh(which
includes Mohali, SAS Nagar, ManiMajra, Panchkula) Hyderabad,
Secunderabad, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai (which
includes municipal limits of Thane, Kalyan and parts of Navi
Mumbai), Nagpur, Pune and Delhi national Capital Region which
includes parts of New Delhi, Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Noida and
Gurgaon. Tickets can be home delivered by courier in any of
these cities or can be picked up in New Delhi.
This information
was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri Bandaru
Dattatraya in a written reply to a question from Dr. Ashok Patel
in the Lok Sabha today.
