Palm tops for TTEs for feed on vacant berths

New Delhi, Feb 26: Palm tops will be given to Railway Travelling Ticket Examiners(TTEs) so that they can feed to the Passenger Reservation System (PRS), the information about berths/seats falling vacant at the eleventh hour.

Under the existing system, reservation charts are brought out a few hours before the departure of trains. Often due to unforeseen circumstances, several passengers with reservations do not travel, resulting in many berths remaining vacant.

Since this information is not fed into the PRS system, many waitlisted passengers onboard the train and those at the stations to come remain ignorant about these vacancies.

Now TTEs will feed the current vacancy position in their hand-held terminals which would be linked to the PRS. Based on this informatioon, PRS will allot vacant berths to waitlisted passengers at ensuing stations.

The palm tops will be given to TTEs as a pilot project on four pairs of trains next year. These trains include three Shatabadis between New Delhi-Amristsar, New Delhi-Dehradun, New Delhi-Ajmer and Golden Temple Express, the new Railway Budget said.

UNI