E-tickets from Monday for visiting Qutub Minar

The e-ticketing system will be put on operation as a trial at Qutub Minar from Monday for a month.

Culture Ministry officials said the exercise is being undertaken to find out the suitability of the system for public and also to assess short-comings in the system.

Designed by the National Institute for Smart Government (NISG) on experimental basis, the idea of the system is to introduce e-ticketing for entry to monuments.

The system is also proposed to take care of better accounting of revenue collection, store data on visitors and minimise the possibility of malpractices in the current manual system, they said.

During the period of the trial run, e-ticket for individuals and also group of visitors may be purchased from the ticket counters at Qutub Minar. During this period, manual tickets will not be available at Qutub Minar.

Currently, public entry into 116 monuments in the country, under the control of Archaeological Survey of India, is through tickets. ASI plans to introduce e-ticketing at all such monuments in phases after the technology to be used is firmed up and bottle-necks removed.