New Delhi, October 24: Indian Railways' UTS mobile app for booking unreserved tickets online will be available nationwide from November 1. The UTS mobile app for booking unreserved tickets online is already operational in Mumbai, Delhi-Palwal and Chennai. The scheme was launched four years ago; however, it did not receive much response.

To book unreserved tickets online vis UTS mobile app, a passenger needs to be around 25-30 metres away from the station. Platform tickets and monthly passes can also be bought on the app. In the last four years, there were around 45 lakh registered users of this app with around 87,000 tickets being bought per day on it on average. Special Trains for Diwali and Chhath Puja 2018: View List of Trains and Schedule By Indian Railways for Festival Season.

As of now railway has already implemented the scheme in 15 of its zones. "We have been trying to engage people to encourage them to use the UTS mobile application more and more. The numbers are growing and we are hopeful that once passengers understand the benefits of this app, they will buy their tickets online," a senior official told news agency PTI.

"With certain zones not being a part of the app, a lot of passengers were unable to use it. Any station intersecting these zones was left out of the app. From November 1, it will be available across India," he added. The railways will now implement the secheme in the Northeast Frontier Railway and West Central Railway zones.

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