Rail Ticket Reservation Center of Indian Railways

Rail Ticket Reservation Center of Indian Railways

At present, Indian Railways is having ticket reservation facility at 3604 locations across the country. The computerised reservation centres are provided as per policy at District Headquarters, important hill stations/tourist & pilgrimage centres/post offices on the basis of proposals received from public/public representatives and the zonal railways as per technical feasibility and commercial justification. Additionally, online reserved ticketing has become very popular and about 58% of reserved tickets are now booked online by passengers from comfort of their homes. Hence, it is no longer required to travel to reservation office for booking of reserved accommodation on trains.

In addition to this Indian Railways also started railway ticket reservation facility at 08 post offices in following locations in Chattisgarh: Jashpur Nagar, Korba, Bemetara Baloda Bazar, New Mantralaya, Kanker, Kawardha, Khairagarh

This Press Release is based on information given by the Minister of Railways Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha on 03.08.2016 (Wednesday).