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| Sify ties up with IRCTC to enable e-ticketing | | |
New Delhi, September 21, 2006: Sify Limited today announced its tie-up with the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) to make their online railway ticketing services available at over 3400 iWay cyber cafes across 154 cities in the country with cash payments. A pilot project at 10 iWays in Delhi has started today. This is expected to revolutionise the way railway ticketing is done, with never-before convenience with neighborhood access for the common man.
Online railway ticket bookings on the IRCTC site has been available to customers who either have a credit card or a net banking facility, limiting the number of people who could actually use this convenient facility. The vast majority of Indians however, still prefer to make cash payments for tickets, goods or services. So it was imperative that a means be found for the large number of Indians without a credit card or a net banking facility to be able to make online rail ticket reservations and pay cash.
Commenting on the tie-up, Mr. P K Goel, Managing Director, IRCTC, said, "This path-breaking initiative is aimed at making railway e-ticketing easier and convenient for our customers across the country. For they no longer have to worry about using credit cards or having a net banking facility which is restricted to those with access to computers at home or in the office.
Instead, they can simply make the online bookings and make convenient cash payment at Sify's iWays. We are very pleased to be able to make this very successful facility available to all our customers to with the help of Sify iWays. The reach and network of Sify's iWays is sure to make a difference by enabling access to this online service to the masses."
Speaking on the occasion of this landmark tie-up, Mr. Raju Vegesna, MD & CEO, Sify Limited, said, "This is a tie-up that will make the online rail ticketing facility of the IRCTC accessible and available to the common man through our wide reach of over 3400 iWays cyber cafes across 154 cities. I believe that this will become a landmark event in the growth of online ticketing in the country by not only making it widely available to everyone, but by overcoming the barrier of online payment with convenient cash payments. It is innovative solutions like this that will grow e-commerce in India, and I am extremely pleased that we have been able to work with the IRCTC to make this possible. This is only the first of many new initiatives planned to transform our iWay cyber cafes from being points for Internet access, to what we like to call 'eStores', with all manner of electronic distribution and fulfillment of services." |
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