Indian Railway introduces QR code enabled ticket scanning, soon it will be available across all stations
New Delhi: To lessen a contact between commuters, the Indian Railways authority has decided to begin a contactless ticketing system with QR code enabled ticket scanning across its stations, along airport-like check in counters for passengers, according to officials from the indian railway during a press conference.
Held a meeting with Railway Board officials and reviewed progress of IT-based initiatives being taken by Centre for Railway Information Systems.
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Passengers who will get an SMS with a QR code and URL after booking their tickets will be followed by TTE will scan the details of passengers and that will be linked to a station data base. Passengers can buy QR code enabled ticket either from window or from online.
With online ticketing system at boom currently with 85%, passengers in near future will be able to buy it from window, said railway board chairman Yadav during a press conference. He further added that It is not possible to shift completely to a paper-less ticketing across stations right now as there are still some passengers who do not use smartphones. As of now Railways have already begun using QR code scanning at one division at Prayagraj on a pilot basis, officials said.
If passenger enters the station premises, the QR code on ticket will be scanned through a mobile app and this gets updated in the software’s database. The time of scanning the QR code al