Indian Railways, the country's national transporter has announced that it has extended the discount scheme on booking train tickets through Unified Payments Interface (UPI)/Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) at railway counters for another year till 12 June next year.
Indian Railways started this mode of accepting payment for tickets from 1 December 2017. However, Railway passengers can avail of this discount by booking the tickets at counters and not by booking online tickets.
Indian Railways has decided to provide a 5% discount on the total value of basic fare in PRS reserved counter ticket subject to maximum amount of discount of Rs. 50 on a ticket for payments made through Unified Payment Interface (UPI) including Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) subject to value of ticket being Rs. 100 and more.
In a statement, it said," Railways has decided to extend the provision of 5% discount on the total value of basic fare on booking of reserved ticket through UPI (Unified Payment Interface) including BHIM application across computerized passenger Reservation System (PRS) counters up to 12 June 2022."
Terms And Conditions :-
- It should be noted that the discount applies only to bookings made in person at PRS counters and not online.
- For counter bookings paid through UPI or BHIM, a discount of 5% is offered on the total value of basic fare.
- The minimum fare total has to be Rs 100 in order to avail the discount.
- The maximum discount applicable is capped at Rs 50.
- Travel details must be given to the employee at the PRS counter.
- They will then tell the passenger the payable amount.
- The passenger must then choose UPI/BHIM as mode of payment.
- The employee will then ask the passenger to provide their Virtual Payment Address (VPA) and will then proceed to input the same in the terminal.
- The passenger will receive a message on their phone with a request to confirm payment.
- After the passenger approves the payment, the payable amount will be debited from their UPI-linked account which completes the transaction.
- The counter will then print and issue the ticket.
