Railway eliminates geo-fencing restrictions for UTSonMobile app
Facilitating anywhere-to-anywhere ticket booking with 3 per cent bonus
Ferozepur, May 2, 2024: The Indian Railways has streamlined the process of booking e-tickets through the Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS) mobile app by removing the geofencing restrictions.
UTSonMobile, a GPS-based app developed by the Centre for Railway Information System (CRIS), previously required users to be within a specific proximity (at least 15 meters and within 2 km) of their requested boarding station to book tickets.
Indian Railways is a mainstay of the national transport system in the country. It is an integral part of the country's transportation infrastructure. It is one of the largest and busiest railway networks in the world. Lakhs of railway passengers travel by Indian Railways every day. Out of these, a large number of railway passengers also travel in unreserved class.
For the convenience of railway passengers, the Railway Ministry developed the “UTS on Mobile” app. Through this app, railway passengers can easily book unreserved travel tickets, platform tickets and monthly season tickets, but earlier the railway passenger needed to be within a distance of 5 kilometres from the external geo-fencing restriction station premises to book the unreserved ticket. Now, the Railway Ministry has abolished this external distance restriction.
Now, Indian Railways has removed the external geo fencing restriction for booking paperless tickets (Unreserved Journey Tickets, Platform Tickets and Monthly Season Tickets) through the “UTS on Mobile” app for the convenience of railway passengers i.e. for the passenger it is not mandatory to be 5 kilometres away from the station premises to book unreserved tickets through this app.
Senior Divisional Commercial Manager Paramdeep Singh Saini said that the Railway Ministry has taken a good initiative for the convenience of passengers. He said that booking unreserved tickets through the “UTS on Mobile” app is convenient and very easy. To book tickets through the “UTS on Mobile” app, passengers do not have to stand in queues and they do not have to face the problem of change. It is beneficial for passengers to book tickets through this app as they also get a bonus of 3%.