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Unreserved Railway Tickets To Now Be Issued In Local Languages
The new UTS tickets in Kannada. (pic via Twitter)
In a press release through PIB, Indian Railways has announced the move to issue unreserved tickets through the Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS) in local languages.
As part of the pilot, the first language to get the facility will be Kannada, with the trial beginning yesterday (1 March) at the Mysuru, Bengaluru and Hubballi stations of South Western Railway. The trail will be extended to all other stations in Karnataka from today (2 March).
Railways Minister, Piyush Goyal also announced the move on Twitter,
The minister had earlier announced an application for booking tickets online too.
Railway tickets in local languages has been a long-standing demand of linguistic activists since long and the Railways is moving to resolve the issue. BJP Karnataka and several language activists have welcomed the move.
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