Computerised Reservation Centres on Railways

The Passenger Reservation System (PRS) facility is available at 2926 locations on Indian Railways. Zone-wise details of number of PRS commissioned over Indian Railways are; 187 PRS in Central Railway, 179 in Eastern Railway, 170 in East Central Railway, 92 in East Coast Railway, 356 in Northern Railway, 161 in North Western Railway, 161 in North Eastern Railway, 111 in North Central Railway, 204 in Northeast Frontier Railway, 284 in Southern Railway, 138 in South Western Railway, 131 in South Eastern Railway, 98 in South East Central Railway, 326 in South Central Railway, 93 in West Central Railway, 222 in Western Railway and 13 in Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd..

Computerised reservation centres are provided as per policy at stations where reservation related workload is at least 100 transactions per day or at District Headquarters, important hill stations/tourist & pilgrimages centres/post offices on the basis of proposals received from Public/Public representatives and the Zonal Railways.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri K. H. Muniyappa in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

Source:pib