Indian Railways, the nation’s nationwide transporter has introduced that it has prolonged the low cost scheme on reserving practice tickets by means of Unified Funds Interface (UPI)/Bharat Interface for Cash (BHIM) at railway counters for an additional 12 months until 12 June subsequent 12 months. Indian Railways began this mode of accepting cost for tickets from 1 December 2017. Nonetheless, Railway passengers can avail of this low cost by reserving the tickets at counters and never by reserving on-line tickets. Indian Railways has determined to supply a 5% low cost on the whole worth of fundamental fare in PRS reserved counter ticket topic to most quantity of low cost of Rs. 50 on a ticket for funds made by means of Unified Fee Interface (UPI) together with Bharat Interface for Cash (BHIM) topic to worth of ticket being Rs. 100 and extra.
UPI/BHIM can also be accepted as cost choice whereas reserving tickets by means of counter. 5% low cost on the whole worth of fundamental fare in Passenger Reservation System (PRS) reserved counter ticket is given for funds made by means of UPI together with BHIM topic to most quantity of low cost of Rs. 50 on a ticket and worth of ticket being Rs. 100 and extra.
Step to book tickets through UPI/BHIM at railway PRS counters:
The railway employee at the PRS counter will obtain all the travel details from the passenger and will inform the amount to be paid.
The railway passenger needs to opt to pay the price of the ticket through UPI/BHIM as payment option after which the person at the counter will select UPI as payment option and request the passenger’s Virtual Payment Address (VPA) and initiate the transaction in the terminal.
The passenger will receive a payment request on his mobile to confirm payment.
The passenger needs to confirm the payment request after which the fare amount will be debited from the UPI-linked account.
After the successful transaction, the person at the PRS counter will print the ticket and the passenger can collect the ticket.
