RailEnquiry

Railways are going ahead with their Green initiative of dispensing with pasting of charts o­n coaches at all A1, A and B Class Stations o­n trial basis for a period of 6 months from March 1. This will result in saving of more than 28 tonnes of Charting paper or Rs.1,70,000/- every year per zone. 

Railways’ other efforts in this direction include encouraging “E” ticketing for both reserved and unreserved tickets, eliminating large quantity of paper charts and daily reports by Computerised charting and reporting and moving towards paperless office.

Dispelling worries of inconvenience to passengers, particularly elderly people, Commercial Department indicated that the required Coach and Berth number information will still be available at Centralised locations at all stations and with the TTEs. 

Only the charts pasted o­n the coaches are being withdrawn. To help Senior Citizen passengers to avoid going to from coach to coach looking for their accommodation, this information will continue to be available o­n the charts displayed at prominent standard locations in concourse and platforms.”
Further, until the reliability of electronic charts has been proven, waitlist charts will continue to be pasted at all stations.