The Railways will soon move towards Aadhaar-based online ticketing system to prevent touts from blocking a bulk of tickets, end fraudulent bookings and curb cases of impersonation. The Aadhaar number has been made mandatory for senior citizens to avail concessions in train tickets from April 1. A three-month trial run for this is going on. The new measure was unveiled by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Thursday.

As per the new business plan for 2017-18 unveiled by Mr. Prabhu, the Railways will move towards a cashless ticketing system by installing 6,000 point-of-sale machines and 1,000 automatic ticket vending machines across the country.