Indian Railways: If you do not have money while traveling by train, there is no need to panic. You can easily get a train ticket even without money. These days the digital era is growing rapidly. Such railways have also provided the facility of online payment at the ticket counter. In such a situation, you can easily give money just by scanning.
IRCTC: Many times, in the hurry to catch the train, people forget their purse at home. Sometimes such situations arise that there is no money left in the pocket. Even in such a situation, if you have to buy a railway ticket, there is no need to panic. Even if you do not have money in your pocket, you can easily travel by buying a train ticket. For this, Railways has started a new facility. Agra Division has started this special facility at Agra Cantonment station. Under this system, even if a person does not have money, there will be no problem during the journey.
Railways has started digital payment to promote cash less. In this, you can easily buy tickets from the counter on the platform by scanning the QR code. This facility is being provided through a special cash less counter. A fair display is also set up here. Passengers can make online payment by seeing the fare on the display.
Promotion of cashless payment in Agra division
Indian Railways has accepted digital payments very rapidly. Similarly, you can easily buy all the food items in all the stations of Agra division by scanning them through QR code. This includes Agra Cantonment, Agra Fort, Mathura Junction. Like all the stations are included in Agra division. Parking facility has also been provided in these stations. Here also you can make online payment. Not only this, if a railway passenger uses a pay and use toilet, he can also pay for it through cashless payment. This will save time of passengers. With this the hassle of loose money has ended.
Tickets are being booked through mobile and website
According to the official data of Indian Railways, the trend of digital tickets has increased rapidly since the year 2020-21. In the year 2020-21, people had booked tickets worth Rs 808 lakh through the mobile app. Whereas in 2021-22, tickets worth Rs 1915 lakh were sold. People bought digital tickets worth Rs 932 lakh in 2020-21 and Rs 2259 lakh in 2021-22 through the railway website.