Ticket-checking aboard trains goes hi-tech on SCR

: South Central Railway (SCR) has taken the initiative to use high-end technology-based hand-held terminals (HHTs) onboard trains, acting upon the directive of Union Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal.

The HHTs would enable the ticket-checking staff verify the status of reserved passengers list of the entire train, get to know the live status of vacant berths and allot the vacant berths between identified destinations to passengers in a wholly transparent manner, a press release from the SCR said.

Passengers would benefit from prompt allotment of vacant berths during the course of the journey, the release said adding that passengers would get real-time information on vacant berths at stations en route.

The HHTs have recently been introduced on Indian Railways to cater to 51 Rajdhani and Shatabdi Express trains and South Central Railway is one among the identified zone to implement this computer-based passenger-centric project on a pilot basis, it said.

Under the project,