Last week while travelling to Lucknow, this thought again crossed my mind, so putting it here. I read somewhere that daily almost 2 lakh railway tickets are booked online through IRCTC, and mostly these are e-tickets. While booking online IRCTC sends a SMS too. But railways mandates to carry a print out of the e-ticket otherwise they will charge Rs 50 as fine. Also carrying a ID card is mandatory, then I wonder whats the use of carrying the printout of the e-ticket, anyway ticket examiner has the list, he has to ask for ID proof and in most of the cases passengers may have SMS too.
Call it Indian mindset or whatever, generally people carry two copies of printout, one handy and the other one in luggage in case they misplace the first one, because then Ticket examiner will fine them. Then one can think that daily in India almost 3-4 lakhs papers are wasted just to carry the e-ticket printouts.
Today when all the government departments are advocating for going green, I believe its high time Railways should also think about this e-ticket printout stuff. If not stopping, at least it should not be mandatory.
---Hari.
Call it Indian mindset or whatever, generally people carry two copies of printout, one handy and the other one in luggage in case they misplace the first one, because then Ticket examiner will fine them. Then one can think that daily in India almost 3-4 lakhs papers are wasted just to carry the e-ticket printouts.
Today when all the government departments are advocating for going green, I believe its high time Railways should also think about this e-ticket printout stuff. If not stopping, at least it should not be mandatory.
---Hari.
2 comments:
Good one.. But, I seriously feel the 'green' thing is all about cost-cutting and nothing more. They talk about it only when their business isn't well..
nice thought Sir...
i also used to take out 2-3 printouts of the same ticket every time traveled by train.
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