Railway Ticket: QR code ticketing facility has been started for cashless facility at many major stations of Northeast Frontier Railway. Passengers can now avoid long queues for cash transactions.
Indian Railway: Traveling by Indian Railways is going to be even easier now. Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has equipped 588 booking counters in its five divisions with QR code machines under the Digital India initiative.
Railway officials said on Monday that QR code ticketing facility has been started at 588 booking counters in northeastern states as well as seven districts of West Bengal and five districts of North Bihar. Of these digital booking counters, the highest number of 167 booking counters have been set up in Katihar, 96 in Alipurduar, 87 in Rangia, 175 in Lumding and 63 in Tinsukia.
According to Kapinjal Kishore Sharma, Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) of Northeast Frontier Railway, booking counters equipped with QR code have been set up in five divisions. These divisions are – Katihar, Rangia, Alipurduar, Lumding and Tinsukia. This move by Railways ensures that passengers can avail ticketing facility through digital payments without any interruption at almost all major stations within the NFR network.
Which railway stations will have QR code ticketing?
The highest number of digital booking counters, 167, have been set up in Katihar division. At the same time, 96 counters have been set up in Alipurdurwar, 87 in Rangia, 175 in Lumding and 63 in Tinsukia division.
The official said that the introduction of QR code machines at the booking counters will make it easier for passengers to get tickets during the festival rush. Passengers can now avoid long queues for cash transactions.
More than 7600 special trains in the festive season
Director of Railway Board Dilip Kumar has said that on the occasion of Chhath and Diwali, we had earlier decided to run more than six and a half thousand special trains. But now its number has been increased to more than 7,600. Indian Railways is running more than 7,700 special trains in the months of October and November. The monitoring of all these special trains is being done at the Railway Board, Zonal Railway and station level.
