In a move to towards digitalisation and making ticket checking activity more real time, South Central Railway has introduced Bio metric sign-on for ticket checking staff. Initially, six Travelling Ticket Examiner (TTE) lobbies-Secunderabad, Kacheguda, Vijayawada, Guntakal, Guntur and Nanded locations have been identified for the introduction of bio metric sign-on/sign-off. Later on, this system will be extended to all 73 TTE lobbies present across the Zone. Earlier, the sign-on/sign-off activity of ticket checking staff was done using username and password.

Now, to streamline the login mechanism of ticket checking staff, Aadhaar based bio metric activity has been introduced at TTE lobbies. Finger print device has been enabled in TTE lobby application duly integrating with C-DAC portal. This will ensure physical presence of Ticket checking staff at their source station and destination station. The login/logout timings of the ticket checking staff can be recorded on real time basis. Sanjay Kumar Srivastava, General Manager, SCR has complimented commercial staff for implementing this technological advancement in the Zone. He stated that, SCR is always in forefront in implementing digital technologies and this bio metric sign-on & sign-off system is one more such digital initiative and will ensure transparency in the system.