The railway ministry has directed its zones to discontinue pasting reservation charts on reserved coaches of all trains at A1, A and B class stations as a pilot undertaking for six months from March 1, an official assertion mentioned at present.
Nonetheless, a bodily and digital show of charts will proceed on the platforms, the ministry assertion mentioned.
Based mostly on the earnings from passengers, the railways classifies its stations into seven classes – A1, A, B, C, D, E and F. It has 17 zones.
“At these stations, the place digital charts show plasma has been put in and the identical is functioning correctly, bodily reservation charts at such platforms may be stopped,” it added.
Earlier, pasting of reservation charts on reserved coaches of all trains was discontinued at New Delhi, Hazrat Nizamuddin, Mumbai Central, Chennai Central, Howrah and Sealdah stations.
The official further said that the measure would also save paper. The trial would be implemented in five cities Chennai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Bengaluru.
However, a section of train passengers’ associations and consumer activists voiced their displeasure with the concept, fearing that it could cause a lot of confusion.