3 automatic vending machines installed at city railway station
Two days after the publication of the news report in Amritsar Tribune highlighting hundreds of ticket buyers daily struggling to secure current tickets at unreserved ticket counters situated in the general waiting hall at the city railway station, railway authorities on Monday installed three new Automatic Ticket Vending Machines (ATVMs).
Senior Divisional Commercial Manager Paramdeep Singh Saini said in order to facilitate the passengers to get unreserved tickets, ATVMs are being installed.
Buying unreserved ticket from an ATVM machine is very easy and convenient. Passenger will not have to stand in queues to buy unreserved tickets from railway counters and will not have to face the problem of getting small denomination of currency.
He said to buy unreserved tickets, railway travellers can contact the ATM assistant or make their smart card at the booking counter or scan the QR code and make digital payments in a simple way to get their travel tickets. To buy a ticket from ATVM, the passenger can select the station from which he wants to buy a ticket by writing the name of the station or from the map.
After selecting the station, the passenger has to select the class of the train he is travelling in. After this, ticket fare has to be paid. After this, the printed ticket will come out from the machine. Passengers can also take the renewal of Monthly Season Ticket (MST) and platform tickets through this machine.
