South Central Railways introduces QR code facility at all counters for ticket buying

Secunderabad : In order to encourage cashless transactions in more ways and to increase digital payments even at General Booking and Reservation counters, the South Central Railway has introduced an additional facility of payment of ticket fare through QR (Quick Response) code for purchasing tickets. South Central Railway said that  this will facilitate in doing away the need for carrying cash and tendering exact change apart from procuring the tickets instantly.

“South Central Railway has been encouraging digital payments all over to improve ease of doing business and facilitates in reducing the monetary transactions. In a similar move, now separate devices have been provided at all ticketing counters of all the stations across the zone right outside the ticket window. After all the relevant details for issuing tickets are fed into the system, before accepting the payment, QR code is displayed on these devices and the same can be scanned by the passenger through the payment Apps present in mobile phone. After confirmation of the receipt of the amount, the ticket will be generated and issued to the passenger,” said the SCR statement.

This facility of cashless transactions to the rail users which has been implemented initially at major counters of important stations will now be extended to all counters across the Zone. The devices required for installation have been supplied to all the stations and the implementation has already been started across many stations which will be completed in full fledged manner within a few days.

Arun Kumar Jain, General Manager, SCR appreciated the efforts of the Commercial and Technical Staff for introducing another digital payment option for the benefit of passengers to purchase their tickets at Ticketing counters. He appealed to all the rail users to utilize this opportunity for purchasing the general tickets which will immensely help them in tendering exact change and relieves them in handling currency.

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