The Indian Railways is introducing new guidelines from today to overcome the menace of touts cornering the Tatkal tickets meant for common passengers. The Railway spokeperson Anil Saxena told AIR that Tatkal tickets would be exclusively issued in all computerised reservation counters and unreserved ticketing system counters between 10-10.30 am for trains of the next day.
At the Zonal Railway and the Divisional Railway level, the local Railway administration is also making arrangements at the reservation counters for orderly implementation of the amendment in the scheme like segregation of Tatkal buyers through separate queues, separate counters etc. as per the local requirement and feasibility. Moreover, installation of CCTVs in all major booking centres to monitor any unusual activities, inspection of the reservation centres by the senior officers.
The requirement of indicating Mobile number of the passenger in the application form is also being insisted to cross verify the genuineness of passengers.