Paying parking charges digitally at railway stations stays a trouble for commuters in Chennai

While Southern Railway has been selling the usage of digital cost programs for buying tickets, commuters are having a tough time paying parking charges digitally at railway stations throughout town. This is generally as a result of contractors, who oversee the parking areas, don’t observe a uniform system of accepting digital funds.

Southern Railway has been pushing for the usage of digital cost programs on the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation web site in addition to the UTS app in an enormous manner. As a part of this, it even offers reductions for tickets purchased utilizing these modes.

The Chennai division maintains over 100 parking areas at railway stations throughout town and its suburbs, the place 1000’s of commuters park their autos by paying month-to-month or day by day charges. N. Damodaran of East Gopalapuram in Pattabhiram stated digital funds weren’t accepted by the contractor on the Hindu College railway station’s parking. He stated commuters at Avadi and Pattabhiram railway stations confronted an analogous downside, with the digital cost facility not being obtainable on the parking areas there.

Commuters utilizing the Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS), operated between Chennai Beach and Velachery, complained that the parking contractor didn’t settle for digital funds for buying month-to-month passes or day by day parking tickets at stations together with Perungudi and Taramani.

S. Venugopal of Annai Indira Nagar stated whereas the parking contractor on the Velachery railway station accepted digital funds, the one on the Perungudi station didn’t.

Commuters need railway officers to test usually that the parking contractors settle for digital funds for charges. A senior official of the Chennai division stated in line with the contract awarded for managing parking areas at railway stations, accepting digital cost of parking charges was obligatory. In case this isn’t accomplished, commuters can register their complaints on the railway helpline and motion will likely be taken towards the contractors in query, he added.