New Delhi: In a significant step aimed at providing ticket incentives without contact, Delhi cabinet led by the Chairman of the Minister of Arvind Kejriwal has approved a 10% discount grant in the tariff to commut tickets through the mobile application.
The Delhi government said in a statement that the discount will apply to 6,750 buses operated by Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) and under the cluster scheme.
While currently, contactless tickets by scanning QR code are now available through the Chartr cellular application, commuters will be able to use the Delhi government application for this purpose too.
“The Delhi government for the past few years has tried to revolutionize how public transportation is felt in the country.
Today’s decision is a welcome step,” said Minister of Transportation Kailash Gahlot.
“When we launched a general mobility card in 2018, we saw a large number of private car users shifting to public transportation.
I hope that the State of the Art Bus with increasing supervision and safety features and right incentives such as e-ticketing applications and general mobility cards will be Becoming the urge of Delhies is needed to adopt public transportation as their default mode, “he said.
In August last year, the Delhi government has conducted the first public trial of the e-ticketing system on all buses on the route no.
473 through the Mobile Chartr application.
The government has promoted e-ticketing to reduce the spread of Covid-19 and Gahlot has formed a unit of tasks to explore the selection of cellular tickets without contact on the bus.
The initial trial shows that tickets are ordered through an application account for 6% of the total ticket, the government said in a statement.