Incentives on digital purchase of Railway tickets through IRCTC website, on counters by credit/debit cards, through mobile phones etc. Discounts and waiver of service charge
Train tickets can be booked at the ticket counters through cash or through credit/debit cards, Unified Payments Interface (UPI)/ Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) modes of payment. Tickets can also be booked through cash from various Railway agents like Yatri Ticket Suvidha Kendra (YTSK), Jan Sadharan Ticket Booking Sevak (JTBS), Rail Travel Service Agents (RTSA) etc. For booking of tickets through Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) website, all modes of cashless payment are already available, viz. net banking, through credit/debit cards, cash cards, e-wallets and UPI/BHIM.
In order to further promote cashless transactions in purchase of Railway tickets, following initiatives have also been undertaken by the Government:-
During the period from April, 2017 to November, 2017, approximately 65% of total reserved tickets were booked through cashless modes of payment.
Source: PIB
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