December 02, 2008

CRIS receives PM award for excellence in public administration

Unreserved ticketing system developed by Centre for Railway Information System has received the Prime Minister’s award for excellence in public administration for the year 2006-2007. The award was conferred by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh at a function on the occasion of Civil Service Day.

A 28 member project team lead by Mr Vikram Chopra director operations of CRIS has received the award on behalf of the Indian Railways from the Prime Minister.

The unreserved ticketing system has been developed to cater to 16 million unreserved passengers who travel on Indian Railways everyday. In addition to providing more than 3600 points of sale at 1300 locations on Indian Railways, this system provides a facility to passengers to purchase their tickets not only from the journey origination stations but also surrounding stations to reduce the queues at booking counters on major stations.

As an extension of unreserved ticketing system, CRIS has developed automatic ticket vending machine which has a user friendly interface. These machines have become very popular in Mumbai suburban area where more than 60,000 passengers are buying their journey tickets daily through the ATVMs.