Current Affairs 4th November 2018

Updated : 04-Nov-2018

Current Affairs 4th November 2018 - Important Points

• Railways Ministry launches ‘UTS on Mobile’ facility to enable seamless booking of unreserved tickets on - 1st November 2018

Current Affairs 4th November 2018 - Details 

Railways Ministry launches ‘UTS on Mobile’ facility to enable seamless booking of unreserved tickets on - 1st November 2018

The Ministry of Railways launched the ‘Unreserved Mobile Ticketing’ facility (UTS on Mobile) to enable seamless booking of unreserved tickets all over Indian Railways, wiping out the need for passengers to wait in queues to purchase the tickets on 1st November 2018.

With this, the booking of unreserved tickets on all non-suburban sections across all Zonal Railways will now be available on mobile from 1st November 2018.
This move comes with an aim to promote three C’:

More about Process of ticket booking

• This booking facility for unreserved tickets, including season tickets and also platform tickets is available through the ‘UTSONMOBILE’ app, available for Android,  IOS and Windows phone users.
• The process of ticket booking involves downloading the application and registration by furnishing the necessary details.
• After successful registration, the user is given user-ID and password through which the user can log-in and book ticket through this application within the ticketing area and outside the Geo-fenced area.
• The payment could be made through R-Wallet, debit card, credit card, net-banking, UPI and other e-wallets, thus, promoting government’s directives to promote all digital modes of payments.