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Updated: Jul 20, 2023 21:52 IST

New Delhi [India], July 20 (ANI): For the comfort of railway passengers, Indian Railways is deploying modern expertise to hyperlink common areas with the station title, the Ministry of Railways mentioned on Thursday.
As per the official launch by the ministry, 175 common areas have already been linked with 725 stations beneath this initiative.
This facility will develop into out there to passengers from tomorrow (July 21).
“This new approach would yield better planning of journey and personalized passenger experience in ticket booking on the website and Mobile app. It would also facilitate tourists as station search will get easier,” the ministry mentioned in an announcement.
This initiative additionally contains linking satellite tv for pc cities to connecting railway stations like –  Noida will probably be linked to New Delhi.

“Sometimes, local or popular names are different from railway station names leading to confusion while journey planning hence linking will eliminate confusion,” it added.
To accomplish the target, software modifications in expertise have been performed and 175 common cities and areas have been linked with 725 stations. These modifications have been integrated within the journey planner station search of the e-ticket reserving web site. The performance shall be displayed on the journey planner and digital reservation slip of the ticket.
The ministry additional mentioned that the advantages to passengers embrace higher and customized expertise for passengers in rail journey planning, vacationer comfort, ease of station seek for vacationers, locations of vacationer significance, higher connectivity, linking of satellite tv for pc cities to connecting railway stations, regional significance and pleasure for residents.
“The functionality will provide ease of communication in case of change in station due to operational reasons e.g., if a scheduled station is changed due to operational and maintenance activity – journey planner will show alternate station in search like train for Ahmedabad to Jaipur is planned from Asarva instead of scheduled station Ahmedabad.
“Asarva will be shown in the journey planner on input Ahmedabad – currently this activity is done manually,” it added.
Further, MIS (Management Information System) generated will allow higher planning of latest trains and station facilities. (ANI)