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Indian Railways is soon going to make a major upgrade to its Passenger Reservation System (PRS), which can end the rush for booking train tickets to a great extent.
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav told the Parliament that after the upgrade, the ticket booking capacity of the railways will increase four times. Currently, 25,000 tickets are booked per minute, but with the new technology this capacity will increase to 1 lakh tickets per minute.
New system based on cloud technology
Railways, in collaboration with the Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS), is carrying out a complete restructuring of PRS. In this process, hardware, software, network equipment and security infrastructure will be completely replaced and modernised. The new system will be based on the latest cloud technology, making the ticket booking experience faster, safer and more convenient.
The old system has been in place since 2010
The existing PRS system was implemented in 2010 and runs on Itanium servers and OpenVMS (Virtual Memory System). Since this technology is now outdated, it has become necessary to upgrade it to the latest cloud-based system. This will eliminate the problem of bottlenecks and slow processing in ticket booking.
Booking will become even easier with the Railvan app
For the convenience of passengers, Railways has also launched ‘RailOne’ app, through which both reserved and unreserved tickets can be booked from mobile. Apart from this, Railways has reduced the Advance Reservation Period (ARP) of reserved tickets from 120 days to 60 days from 1 November 2024. Its aim is to balance the trend of ticket booking and reduce the cases of cancellation.
Emphasis on ordinary class coaches
The Railway Minister also informed that the Railways is rapidly increasing the number of non-AC coaches for the convenience of general class passengers. At present, the percentage of non-AC coaches in long distance trains is close to 70%. There is a plan to manufacture 17,000 new non-AC general and sleeper coaches in the next five years. In the year 2024-25 itself, 1,250 general coaches have been added to long distance trains.
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