Pay for your rail tickets through BHIM and UPI

To promote cashless transactions, Indian Railways will now be accepting payments at all its passenger reservation counters through BHIM app and UPI.

The notification for the same has already been issued. "We'll now be accepting payments through BHIM app and UPI. No additional service charge would be levied on digital payments," railway official said.

Railways is already in process of equipping all ticket counters with POS machines to accept payments through debit and credit cards. Railways has around 14000 counters across the country.

Currently, more than 60% of railway ticketing booking are cashless. Indian railways wants to move less cash payment system where it is aiming to make 90% of its all passenger payments cashless.