(ET)
Railway commuters in Chennai and Tamil Nadu who use the R-wallet to book mobile-tickets would soon get Rs 5 extra when they recharge the R-wallet for Rs 100. The directive has come from the Railway Board (RB) on May 3 to promote unreserved ticket booking through mobile phones. The scheme will be trialled for a period of three months after which it will be reviewed, the order stated.
Sources said that this was after Southern Railway, covering Tamil Nadu and Kerala, wrote to RB with some ideas buoyed by the tremendous response to m-ticketing in the zone. From April 14, people across Tamil Nadu and Kerala can book unreserved tickets on their mobile phones through the ‘utsonmobile’ application, skipping long queues. In Chennai suburban railway network, this facility has been available since 2015.
