Title - Soon, railway booking at e-Sampark Centres

Chandigarh: After deciding to deliver registration certificates (RCs) from e-Sampark Centres, the UT Administration is in the process of introducing the service of railway booking at the centres. Officials of the IT department said a large number of residents had been demanding the introduction of the service at these centres for long.The decision to provide the facility was taken by the department of information technology.The department discussed the issue with Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited in New Delhi, the public sector enterprise of the Ministry of Railways which is responsible for managing the service of Internet ticketing.The officials said although there were 11 railway booking counters in the tricity, still there had been a demand for ticket reservation at the Sampark Centres. The department is putting in efforts to provide web-enabled railway reservations at the Sampark Centres. The service will be launched shortly.The facility is being provided in post offices at Sectors 17, 22, 47, PGI, Panchkula and Chandimandir.The Railways has its own reservation counters at the local bus stand in Sector 17 and ISBT-43, Mohali, High Court and railway station.

LINK WITH IRCTC

To start rail reservation at the e-Sampark Centres, the department of information technology is setting up a seamless link with the IRCTC’s Internet ticketing service. The IRCTC is providing the facility in Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata and Mumbai.