LUDHIANA: Railway authorities at local level have failed to coach commuters in regards to the price tag vending machines. Railway commuters are hence going through a variety of problems while the use of them to generate common price tag.
The machines also are no longer accepting newly offered foreign money notes due to some technical updation issue.
About a month in the past, when TOI had reported about this, the railway authorities had assured that they might glance into the matter. To ease the process, they mentioned would set up consciousness board near the machines to steer the passenger in the use of the gadget. However, there was no major development until then. The passengers are nonetheless noticed to be battling the similar problems while travelling.
Meanwhile, sources in the railways mentioned these price tag vending machines were put in a year in the past, just after demonetisation. At that point, the reserve financial institution did not release the small foreign money notes like that of Rs 200, Rs 50 and Rs 10. Hence, the sensor put in in these vending machines, can not learn the code printed on the newly offered foreign money notes, hence reject them and fail to generate tickets, mentioned sources.
“Even the local officials have deputed some retired railway officials as a facilitator near the price tag vending machines to assist the passenger in generating price tag, but their running hours are not sufficient to solve the problem with new foreign money notes,” mentioned sources.
Deepak Kumar, a passenger travelling to Ambala mentioned, “I reached the station on time to catch the educate, which arrived on platform quantity 2, but could no longer generate tickets even after losing greater than twenty mins. Every time the machines rejected the brand new foreign money notes,”
Ludhiana railway station director Abhinav Singla mentioned railway authorities will quickly set up signboards near price tag vending machines to create consciousness among the passengers, so that they bring and use previous foreign money notes for generating common price tag from these machines until the sensors are not updated. “We have additionally intimated the higher authorities about this downside so that they set up replace the sensor machine making the machines able to accepting new foreign money notes,” he mentioned.
The machines also are no longer accepting newly offered foreign money notes due to some technical updation issue.
About a month in the past, when TOI had reported about this, the railway authorities had assured that they might glance into the matter. To ease the process, they mentioned would set up consciousness board near the machines to steer the passenger in the use of the gadget. However, there was no major development until then. The passengers are nonetheless noticed to be battling the similar problems while travelling.
Meanwhile, sources in the railways mentioned these price tag vending machines were put in a year in the past, just after demonetisation. At that point, the reserve financial institution did not release the small foreign money notes like that of Rs 200, Rs 50 and Rs 10. Hence, the sensor put in in these vending machines, can not learn the code printed on the newly offered foreign money notes, hence reject them and fail to generate tickets, mentioned sources.
“Even the local officials have deputed some retired railway officials as a facilitator near the price tag vending machines to assist the passenger in generating price tag, but their running hours are not sufficient to solve the problem with new foreign money notes,” mentioned sources.
Deepak Kumar, a passenger travelling to Ambala mentioned, “I reached the station on time to catch the educate, which arrived on platform quantity 2, but could no longer generate tickets even after losing greater than twenty mins. Every time the machines rejected the brand new foreign money notes,”
Ludhiana railway station director Abhinav Singla mentioned railway authorities will quickly set up signboards near price tag vending machines to create consciousness among the passengers, so that they bring and use previous foreign money notes for generating common price tag from these machines until the sensors are not updated. “We have additionally intimated the higher authorities about this downside so that they set up replace the sensor machine making the machines able to accepting new foreign money notes,” he mentioned.
Vending machines reject new currncy notes
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July 07, 2018
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