New Delhi: In a move that will increase convenience for passengers and also help save paper, Indian Railways will now accept screenshots of e-tickets instead of a paper printout.
Called the Virtual Reservation Message (VRM), a digital reproduction of the e-ticket can be shown to the ticket examiner on a laptop or mobile screen. This means that passengers will no longer have to bother about carrying along a paper ticket if they have the ticket saved on a mobile device.
VRMs will be treated at a par with Electronic Reservation Slips (printouts of e-tickets), while travelling on Indian Railways. Passengers travelling using VRMs will have to carry along one of the eight prescribed identity proofs in original.
Recently there was much buzz about Indian Railways launching a mobile ticketing application, but that initiative seems to have gone nowhere.
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