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Train ticket bookings resume at 170,000 centres from Friday: Rail Min

The minister also said that bookings will also resume at counters at specific stations over the next two to three days

Migrants flout social distancing norms as they gather outside a registration camp to travel back to their native places, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, in Jalandhar. Photo: PTI
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Migrants flout social distancing norms as they gather outside a registration camp to travel back to their native places, during the ongoing Covid-19 nationwide lockdown, in Jalandhar. Photo: PTI

BS Web Team New Delhi
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said that booking of train tickets will resume at around 170,000 common service centers across the country from Friday.

Common service centres are physical facilities for delivering e-services of the government at rural and remote locations where the availability of computers and the internet is negligible or absent. The minister also said that bookings will also resume at counters at specific stations over the next two to three days.

"We are developing a protocol to identify the stations. We will also soon announce the resumption of more trains," Goyal said during a conversation with

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