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Army Vice Chief launches Rail E-ticketing for service personnel | Vice Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen PC Bhardwaj launched a pilot project of Rail e-ticketing for the Armed Forces, here on Wednesday.
The project, being implemented by the Controller General of Defence Accounts
(CGDA),
will initially be available at 20 locations spread across the country. Speaking
on the occasion, General Bhardwaj said the new system will cut tedious paperwork
and introduce seamless processing "in one stroke". He hoped that the Principal
Controller of Defence Accounts Travel System will slowly make the Passenger
Reservation
System (PRS) irrelevant and become a precursor to automation and better
management.
In her address, the CGDA, Smt Bulbul Ghosh said the pilot project will gradually
be expanded to more than 5,000 Army, Navy and Air Force units across the
country.
The e-ticketing system will be completed in four phases, - the first phase will
cover Rail Travel, Air Travel will be covered in the second phase, Defence civilians
will be included in the third phase and TA processing will be completely online
in the final phase. Armed Forces personnel will now have the convenience to book
and print tickets through IRCTC website at unit locations. The project will enable
automatic generation of all accounting, payment and financial reports. The main
features of the e-ticketing facility are availability round-the-clock, user friendly,
ease of operation and accounting while taking care of security concerns. In the
new system, the units will be enabled to have a virtual PRS of the railways in
the units itself, which will be enabled to issue tickets through a centralised
portal operated by the CGDA office. For this purpose, the CGDA has entered into
an agreement with the IRCTC. With this facility, the system of railway warrants
which obliged Armed Forces personnel to go in for manual tickets at the PRS
counter
and involved a lot of paperwork, will gradually be replaced. Over six million
warrants are issued to the Armed Forces every year, involving worth over 580 crore
rupees. |
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