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ICICI to sell rail e-tickets
New Delhi: The ICICI Bank and
the Indian Railways have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to
sell e- tickets through merchant establishments. The tickets will be sold
across 125 cities all over the country. Railway Minister Lalu Prasad said,
"Indian Railways' policy is to provide maximum facilities to the passengers
at their door steps in order to make the rail journey comfortable. Describing
MoU signed with ICICI Bank as a milestone in the direction of making railway
tickets easily available to the people, he added that after this pilot
project more facilities would be developed. To purchase the tickets one
will have make the payments using its credit or debit card. The association
of Indian Railways with the ICICI Bank will facilitate spreading the network
of reservation counters right into the hinterlands of our country. This
facility is expected to ease the chaos at the ticket counters across the
railway stations, besides saving valuable time and energy of the rail
users. The MOU was signed by Rajani Hasija, Group General Manager (Information
and Technology), Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC)
and Sachin Khandelwal, General Manager, ICICI Bank in the presence of
Railway Minsiter Lalu Prasad, and Managing Director and Chief Executive
Officer, ICICI Bank, K.V. Kamath among others dignitaries.
-Feb 15, 2007
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