INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
stations will now be a thing of the past as the Railways' mobile app for buying unreserved tickets online, UTS, will be available nationwide
from November 1, a senior official said on Tuesday
While the scheme was started four years ago, it failed to catch on among passengers except in Mumbai, where it was first launched because a
The scheme is also open for those who want to buy tickets for travelling long distance."We have been trying to engage people to encourage
them to use the UTS mobile application more and more
The numbers are growing and we are hopeful that once passengers understand the benefits of this app, they will buy their tickets
online.""With certain zones not being a part of the app, a lot of passengers were unable to use it
Any station intersecting these zones was left out of the app
From November 1, it will be available across India," a senior Railways official said.In the last four years, there were around 45 lakh
registered users of this app with around 87,000 tickets being bought per day on it on average, he said.A passengers needs to be around 25-30
metres away from the station to avail the application and is allowed to book only four tickets at a time through it.On the app, a registered
online sale of such unreserved tickets, the official said.
