Considering barring private agents from booking train tickets: Goyal
5 years ago

Considering barring private agents from booking train tickets: Goyal

India TV News  

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday that he is considering barring private vendors and agents from booking train tickets for passengers, noting they are no longer needed when tickets can be booked by anyone on a mobile. Replying in Lok Sabha to a discussion on the demand for grants of the Railway Ministry, he spoke about his ministry's crackdown on touts, noting that 5,300 of them, who sold train tickets in black market, were arrested in the last one year and two months. "I think vendors and private agents are not needed," he said, adding that he was considering barring them. He said it was often seen that train tickets were sold out soon after their booking began, prompting the ministry to launch a crackdown following investigation.

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