Ministry of Railways has said the online sale of train tickets will resume from 6:00 pm Friday.
Tickets of March 26 will be sold on Friday.
Railways ministry issued a notification on Thursday on the resumption of the online ticketing system after keeping the system suspended from March 21 to facilitate the handover of responsibilities to a new service provider, Shohoz.
The notification said only tickets for inter-city trains of 77 listed stations starting from March 26 will be available on the computerized system of “Shohoz-Synesis-Vinsen JV’ or online on Friday, reports UNB.
No tickets for trains starting on March 25 will be available online.
The five-day advance ticket for trains operating from March 26 to 29 will be available on Friday online, it said.
“From 8:00 am on Saturday, online, offline ticket issuing of the railways will resume as before,” it added.
However, tickets will not be available on mobile apps for now. Passengers will be able to buy online tickets by visiting eticket.railway.gov.bd.
100 per cent of the tickets for trains operating from March 21 to 25 were sold manually from the counters.
A five-year agreement was signed with ‘Shohoz-Synesis-Vinsen JV’ on February 15 to operate the ticketing system of the Bangladesh Railway. Earlier, CNS was involved in the work.
To re-activate the computer ticketing system by ‘Shohoz’ at 77 stations, it required five days.
Under the agreement, ‘Shohoz-Synesis-Vinsen JV’ will initially operate the existing CCSRTS system that will be replaced by BRITS in the next 18 months.
About 90,000 train tickets are issued daily while about 2.7 million monthly through computers. About 50 per cent of these tickets are being issued online or through mobile apps.