Dimapur, May 2 (EMN): The Northeast Frontier Railway (NF) has announced that Station Ticket Booking Agents (STBA) has been provided to 69 non suburban group (NSG)—6 category stations of NF Railway. An update from the NF Railway informed on Wednesday.
According to the update, the NSG—6 category stations are those station with an annual ticket sale of up to INR 1 crore. The NF Railway presently has 328 stations with an income of less than INR 1 crore where there are no separate staffs to sell unreserved tickets to the public except the on-duty station masters.
Indian Railway came out with the innovative idea to engage STBA at such NSG—6 category stations in the year 2015. Engagement of such agents helps the concerned station masters to devote more time for train operation.
The STBA operators are allowed to sell all types of non-concessional unreserved tickets through unreserved ticketing system, including platform tickets, season tickets, renewal of season tickets, and issuing of senior citizen concession tickets, the update stated.
At present, about 5.64 % of passengers travelling over NF Railway purchase their rail tickets from Station Ticket Booking Agents (STBA). Railways expect a surge in such ticket selling with opening of more STBAs in remote stations, the update added.
