Howrat: Tired of peeking in lower letters, fainting, almost unreadable on the reservation chart? No longer.
Eastern Railway installed a digital passenger booking chart board at the Howrah station on Monday afternoon for passengers to get a clear view of their reservation status.
A senior ER employee assigned the e-chart board.
The reservation chart board is a combination of eight 50-inch LED television sets.
The status of passenger reservations will be displayed on four television screens and ads in the other four.
The entire display system will be managed by an agent, which pays the train for the ads displayed.
“This will generate non-rs income of Rs 43.93 lakh per year as a license fee,” said an Er spokesman.
He said this digital system would be extended to other platforms in stages in phase.
“Digital Charting is an environmentally friendly method to display a graph of passenger reservations because it will reduce paper consumption and project the train as an environmentally friendly organization,” said the spokesman.
The train has consistently rotated without paper for years.
“Now passengers can search for digital reservation boards instead of waiting for a manually prepared paper diagram that is inserted on the train just before the scheduled departure,” said an official Er Er.