Indian Railway provide facility of e-Ticket on Mobile Phone via SMS.

Now, Income Railway provide your great facility of eTicke on your Mobile Phone by SMS. Indian Railway established New Portal to launch this benefit to rail users. E-Ticket on Mobile Phone now Possible through new Web Portal Facilitating Travel by Merely Displaying SMS Without Ticket Printout. No Travel Agents Allowed to use New Web Portal to Facilitate Convenient Booking by Normal Passengers.

The e-ticketing module of the Indian Railway Web Portal is expected be the most sought after facility by the normal passenger. The e-ticketing operations of IRCTC on its website shall also continue in parallel. In the additional facility of e-ticketing provided by IR Web Portal, no travel agents have been allowed so that normal passengers can have ease of booking during peak hours.

The Portal will broadly provide e-ticketing on the Internet (booking and cancellation) and e-ticketing on mobile phone (booking and cancellation).

Individual users choosing to use the e-ticketing facility shall be required to register himself/herself for the first time for this purpose after submitting the mandatory details and shall be provided a unique user ID. This registration will be free of charge. Thereafter he can avail the services of Booking and Cancellation of e-tickets. He can take a printout of the e-ticket which is known as Electronic Reservation Slip (ERS).

Individual users desirous of utilizing the facility of booking e-ticket on mobile phone ( which is being named as m-ticket), having requisite internet facility can do so by downloading the mobile ticketing application on the mobile phone from the IR Portal, using the URL sent in SMS. On completion of booking and payment formalities, a SMS containing the ticket details will be sent to user which is referred to as Mobile Reservation Message – (MRM). The cost of MRM from IR Web Portal shall be borne by Indian Railways. Such passengers need not require to carry a print out of the ticket and instead display the SMS (namely MRM). Similarly a Screen-shot of the e-ticket displayed through laptops/palmtops (referred as Virtual Reservation Message – VRM) will also be construed as e-ticket and such passenger also need not take a print out of the e-ticket and instead display the Screen-shot on their laptops/palmtops.

It is mandatory that at least one passenger booked on the e-ticket/m-ticket carry at least one of the following eight proofs of identity (in original ) :

Voter Photo Identity Card issued by Election Commission of India.

Passport.

PAN Card issued by Income Tax Department.

Driving License issued by RTO.

Photo Identity card issued by Central/State Government.

Student Identity Card with photograph issued by recognized school/college for their students.

Nationalized Bank Passbook with photograph.

Credit Cards issued by Banks with laminated photograph

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