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In the railway budget 2007-2008, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav had announced that “Hand-held terminals will be made available to the TTEs as a pilot project on four pairs of trains next year. These would include three Shatabdi Express trains running between New Delhi-Amritsar, New Delhi-Dehradun, New Delhi-Ajmer and Golden Temple Express.” As of now the devices have been made available on the New Delhi-Amritsar and the New Delhi-Dehradun trains. The other two trains are likely to be fitted with the device soon.
Travellers will be familiar with the PRS under which reservation charts are printed a few hours before departure. Few passengers with reservation fail to show up before the trains leave and as a result berths remain vacant. Therefore, passengers on board or waitlisted passengers at ensuing stations do not benefit because of these vacancies. Often these seats are sold by the TTE at inflated prices to waitlisted passengers during the journey. The new technology will do away with these problems.
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