Come January and you can have your train ticket sitting at home if you are in Delhi.
Aiming to enhance accessibility of train tickets, Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation will launch an experimental drive of cash-on-delivery system of ticketing in New Delhi next month.
The payments will be collected when tickets are delivered to customers at their doorsteps, IRCTC Managing Director P K Goyal told reporters after inaugurating its new office in Bhopal. If the experiment is successful, the system will be launched across the country, he said.
The IRCTC has increased bandwidth of its e-ticketing servers from eight mb to 44 mb, enabling 30,000 tickets to be booked in a day, he said, adding, "We are in the process of starting ticketing kiosks at petrol pumps, post offices and cyber cafes. Agreements have been signed with five banks to provide ticketing facility at their ATM counters.".
The IRCTC was in the process of starting four call centres as a part of country-wide network enabling customers to get information by dialing +139+, he said, adding, services like train and ticket status, ticket booking, hotel bookings, car rentals and route planners will be available at the centres.
As part of attempts to woo tourists, two new palace on wheels trains will be started in September 2007 in collaboration with governments of Punjab and Karnataka, he said.
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