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Responsibility of rail admins.
The Indian railways first made the planning
of travel easier by implementing an efficient system for online booking of
tickets, and now it has gone a step further – gone are the days when you had to
produce a printed version of your e-ticket. According to notices put up on the
railways website and printed in national newspapers, passengers do not need to
carry a hard copy of their tickets.
It is enough to prove the authenticity of
your ticket that you have with you the sms about the booking of the e-ticket,
or a screenshot of the e-ticket on your phone or camera, or the ticket saved on
your laptop. This electronic copy of the ticket is called Virtual Reservation
Message (VRM), and along with a valid identification proof, it is all you need
to produce before the Ticket Examiner.
However, through my observations of fellow
passengers and conversations with friends, it seems that people have not taken
this very seriously. A majority of people still have their tickets printed –
and this is no small matter, because the official website of the Indian
Railways says that these printed sheets account for a staggering 3 lakhs of
wasted A4 sheets daily!
Perhaps this is because of the fear
resulting from all we know or have heard of the arbitrariness of government
officials – nobody wants to be told to get off a train, in the middle of
nowhere because they aren't carrying a printed copy of their e-ticket. That thought
needs to change – it is perfectly fine to carry a VRM with you instead.
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