Indian railways to go cashless: Now pay fines via debit or credit cards while travelling

New Delhi, December 26: In a bid to go digital and cashless, Indian Railways will allow the passengers to pay penalty or other fares through their debit or credit cards while travelling.

According to reports, ticket examiners will be given a tablet computer and a POS machine. Several meetings were organised in railways’ connection, co-operation and dialogue programme. Railway board chairman Ashwini Lohani told the officers to decide the target date for completion of various works undertaken by the ministry.

A railway officer told Dainik Bhaskar that if a TTE often charge people for allotting berths now passengers can pay that using debit and credit cards. Reservation fare and supplementary charge can also be paid through POS machine.

Often passengers have no money to pay the fine in these cases, either the passenger is let off or is handed over to police. Now, TTEs will be able exact fine using credit and debit cards. By giving TTEs tablet computers, the TTEs will have the details of reservation and will also feed revenue details.