Soon, ticket vending machine to become functional

Chandigarh railway station

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Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 19

From next week onwards, nobody will have to stand in long queues to get a ticket at the Chandigarh railway station as the railway authorities have installed ticket vending machines at the station.

During a visit to the station today it was found that two-ticket vending machines had been installed on the Chandigarh side and one on the Panchkula side of the station.

Officials of The Railways said trials of all the three machines installed by the company had been successfully conducted twice in the past one month. With the help of the machines passengers could get ticket of any train required by them, information about the arrival and departure of trains and platform ticket also.

For the public, the machines will provide information in both Hindi and English languages. The passenger can use cash, coin, credit or debit card to get the ticket from the vending machines.

R K Dutta, Station Superintendent, Chandigarh railway station, said there was no official intimation about the commencement of these three vending machines, but these would become operational for the public in the next few days. These machines will immensely decrease the festival load on the ticket counters of the station.

In 2012-13, the proposal of coin-operated ticket vending machines were announced in the Railway Budget and since then the railway authorities had been working on the project.

During the last visit to the city, A K Puthia, General Manager, Northern Railway, had assured that the Chandigarh railway station would soon become paper free as the authorities were working on it y.