Mobile Payment Ticketing facility to be started by Indian railways

Called as lifeline of India, Indian Railways has officially declare to start offering rail tickets via mobile sms. And from the sources, we came to know that these services of IRCTC, the subsidiary of Indian Railways will come into effect from July 2013. The amount which will be charged to avail the services will be around Rs 8 to 10 approximately.

To book the tickets through this service, the traveler of Indian railway will have to get his mobile number and bank account information registered first an further the banks will provide a mobile money identification code or MMID, and password to authorize payments.

To book a train, the passenger will just have to send the information of travel as in train number, destination and travel date to the IRCTC after which a transaction ID will be received by the sender on his mobile. Then he will have to send another SMS with message PAY followed by the ID, MMID received from the bank and the password.

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Is this ticketing system will be meant for reservation or we can have general tickets also.