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Indian Railways Launch Mobile Ticketing: SMS To Be Used As Proof Of Ticket

July 11, 2011 | Anil Das

Indian Railways has unveiled a new facility, which will allow passengers to book railway tickets through their mobile phones and use the text message received on their mobile phones by Indian Railways as a valid ticket according to The Mobile Indian.

With this new facility Passengers don’t have to carry paper printouts of their e-Tickets anymore and passengers will now get a ticket through SMS in 20 minutes.

This new facility was unveiled by West Bengal chief minister and former railway minister, Mamata Banerjee who launched this public friendly facility in Kolkata.

The m-ticket service is part of the new website www.indianrailways.gov.in launched recently, which will provide all enquiries like train alert, PNR status, train status, seat availability, train schedule, time table and fare on a single website.

A passenger has just to show the SMS to the ticket collector, backed up by a photo ID to travel on train. The facility of booking tickets through the web portal will be available between 12.30 am and 11.30 pm on a daily basis. Railway officials said the newly launched e-ticketing facility bars travel agents and such bulk customers from using the service.

Recently, the Railway reservation site irctc.co.in blocked over 460,000 fraudulent user IDs and since March 2011, IRCTC has enhanced its cyber surveillance and has been disabling IDs which are found to be violating laws.

Indian Railways were first introduced to India in 1853, is the fourth largest railway network (running length of 64,000 km) and 7,083 stations in the world and ferries two million passengers a day.

Tags: E-ticket, IRCTC

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karan bhatia
Jul 11, 2011 18:49

plz let me knw abt this

mukesh gohel
Jul 11, 2011 19:35

i want to reserve an e-ticket
but how can i pay for it ?

sharan salgare
Jul 11, 2011 20:44

fist offall i thanks to railway team for launching the m ticket facility, such type of service has provided by railway is very use ful to aam aadmi. it gives some new dimensition such as save time-save money. so please provide all details regarding to mticket as early as possible. thank you.

MM Gaur
Jul 12, 2011 10:06

Wonderful!!!

A Long awaited initiative………This step will really help people who have to run about to get the prints of their e-tickets..

But railways will have to modify their SMS to cover all required details to avoid hassles when on board..

Once again….KUDOS to the new service….

mukesh
Jul 12, 2011 10:16

please provide full details. how can i book ticket through sms

Shylajen T G
Jul 12, 2011 12:44

good idea

s raja
Jul 12, 2011 15:41

please forward the details of the mobile e- tickets full details of how to loging the website of the
SMS To Be Used As Proof Of Ticket

k patil
Jul 12, 2011 17:20

thanks for indian railways provide proccessing details shortly

vikas gupta
Jul 12, 2011 19:16

please forward the details of the mobile e- tickets full details of how to loging the website of the
SMS To Be Used As Proof Of Ticket

RaviMalali
Jul 12, 2011 21:24

A good achievement by indian railways towards paperless and approching to wards passangers convenient

Ramesh Rao
Jul 13, 2011 17:17

please let us know, what is the procedure for booking ticket through mobile and what is the WEB SITE to see the details

santosh
Jul 13, 2011 17:40

Is payment is working? is is accepting debit cards?

Virendra Agrahari
Jul 14, 2011 14:15

Good for all travelers. pls provide all details about m-ticket reservation. How can i book ticket on mobile??any web address for m-ticket pls send me on my given mail address.
Thanks To Indian Railway.

vijayverma
Jul 17, 2011 9:29

mobile e-ticket is nice but it is not practical as it is not possible for a ticket examiner to examine the SMSs of huge number of passengers of two to three coach which he has to check while performing his duty.

RAJIV DHAMEJA
Jul 17, 2011 15:50

pls give all details about how to book ticket

Anupam
Jul 29, 2011 6:36

Kindly tell procedure of mticketing (in detail)

prashant mishra
Jul 29, 2011 11:47

plz tell process how to m ticket facility….thanx railway team n railway minister.

Anand Rai
Aug 3, 2011 20:42

You can find all the details related to Mobile Ticket Booking on the following link

http://techcircle.vccircle.com/500/indian-railways-starts-mobile-ticketing-facility-goodbye-ticket-print-outs/