Patna: Booking tickets through the unreserved ticketing system (UTS) mobile app has evoked good passenger responses, particularly in the Sonepur division of the East Central Railway (ECR). The ECR has introduced this system in all five divisions to ease passengers.
Sonepur divisional railway manager (DRM) Vivek Bhushan Sood told this newspaper on Monday that around nine lakh passengers booked their tickets through UTS mobile app from April 1 to July 25 from different places falling under the Sonepur division in the current fiscal.“The railways has, thus, earned a revenue of Rs 1.54 crore through the UTS app,” he said, adding that this facility reduces a lot of time purchasing tickets from open counters.
Altogether 28,946 passengers had booked their tickets through UTS in Sonepur yielding a revenue of Rs 4.67 lakh. “Similarly, 1,47,048 passengers had used their cellphones to book tickets in Hajipur which earned Rs 25.84 lakh during the past four months,” Sood said.
Likewise, 2,35,686 passengers from Muzaffarpur, a business hub of north Bihar, had booked their tickets through the mobile application which resulted in Rs 43.64 lakh in revenue. “Over 46,206 passengers had booked their tickets from Barauni yielding Rs 11.80 lakh as revenue for the railways,” the DRM said.
In Begusarai, altogether 1,08,180 passengers had booked their tickets through UTS which fetched Rs 20.10 lakh as revenue for the railways. “In addition, 79,196 passengers used their mobile phones to book their tickets from Khagaria which led to the earning of Rs 14.36 lakh revenue,” he said, adding that 22,491 passengers had booked their tickets from Naugachhia and which resulted in Rs 3.53 lakh revenue.
“The recent railway decision which lifted restrictions on booking tickets through UTS within 20km area has proved a boon for the passengers,” Sood said.

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