Indian Railways Diwali offer: Online general tickets booking to begin from November 1

Indian Railways is offering a great Diwali dhamaka gift to the travellers by beginning general tickets online booking from November 1, 2018. By doing this, Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation or the IRCTC saved travellers from getting into long queues and waiting for their turns at the ticket counters. Railways has introduced UTS Mobile app across the country, via which passengers can buy unreserved tickets.
What is UTS Mobile App?

The UTS Mobile App allows a passenger to stay in a radius of about 25 to 30 meters from the railway station. Also using UTS app, one person will be able to book only four tickets. Besides regular tickets, passengers will be able to buy platform tickets along with monthly pass that will save time and energy.

Though the scheme began four years back, it never caught the attention of people and was largely a failure besides in Mumbai, where it was a success because of the fact that Mumbai has a local train system within the city. Later, the system was introduced in Delhi, Palwal and Chennai and currently, the scheme is working in 15 other zones. It is also useful for those, who are planning to travel to far cities.

A senior railway official mentioned, "We are trying to encourage people to use UTS Mobile App as much as possible. The number is increasing and we expect travellers to buy online tickets when they understand the benefits of this app.”

The official also said that they have got 45 lakh registered users of this app over the past four days, during which nearly 87 thousand tickets were purchased on a daily basis.