Title - Northern Railway to introduce a pink reservation form for Tatkal bookings

NEW DELHI: Months after announcing a slew of measures to curb touts, Northern Railway will introduce a pink reservation form, which they believe will help identify Tatkal ticket-seekers from the rest.

The form has to be filled by passengers at booking counters to provide details such as address, contact number and ID. At present, a single requisition form is available for booking both normal and Tatkal tickets. The new formwill be effective from this weekend and will have just four columns for passenger names.

"This has been done to ensure that not more than four Tatkal tickets are booked by a person as against the normal practice of six,'' said an officer.

GM Northern Railway V K Gupta said over five lakh multiple personal IDs and 44,000 IDs created by agents have been deactivated since February 2011 by IRCTC's anti-fraud team to check misuse of the ticketing service. Gupta said 62 special trains would be run this festive season to clear the passenger rush.