{"id":552694,"date":"2023-02-04T10:12:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T04:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=552694"},"modified":"2023-02-04T11:11:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T05:41:15","slug":"budget-2023-railways-makes-digital-push-to-end-passenger-reservation-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/budget-2023-railways-makes-digital-push-to-end-passenger-reservation-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2023: Railways makes digital push to end passenger reservation woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After getting a record Rs 2.4 trillion budgetary allocation for 2023-24, the Railways ministry will overhaul its digital infrastructure to increase ticketing and query-handling capacity by 10 times, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe plan to improve the passenger reservation system\u2019s back-end infrastructure. At present, the capacity of ticketing is around 25,000 tickets per minute. The target is to upgrade it to 225,000 per minute,\u201d Vaishnaw said in a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe capacity for attending to enquiries will also be upgraded from 400,000 per minute to 4 million per minute,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After getting a record Rs 2.4 trillion budgetary allocation for 2023-24, the Railways ministry will overhaul its digital infrastructure to increase ticketing and query-handling capacity by 10 times, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Friday. \u201cWe plan to improve the passenger reservation system\u2019s back-end infrastructure. At present, the capacity of ticketing is around 25,000 tickets per minute. The target is to upgrade it to 225,000 per minute,\u201d Vaishnaw said in a press conference. \u201cThe capacity for attending to enquiries will also be upgraded from 400,000 per minute to 4 million per minute,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}