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Sify - IRCTC tie up for e-ticketing

admin — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700

TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2006 03:01:30 AM]

NEW DELHI: There is some good news for those who were looking for the convenience of booking railway tickets online, but did not have a credit card or a net banking facility to make that transaction on the net.

Internet company Sify has announced its tie up with Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) to make online railway ticketing service available at over 3,400 iWay cybercafes across 154 cities, on cash payments. As the first step, a pilot project at 10 iWays in Delhi has been kicked-off on Thursday.

“With the alliance in place, users can approach Sify iWay where the cafe administrator would book the railway ticket online, based on particulars such as date of travel and destination.

The customer then pays cash against the ticket and collects the ticket printout. In case of ticket cancellations, the customers will follow the standard cancellation process of IRCTC after which the customer gets cash against the cancellation,” PK Goel, managing director of IRCTC said.

But the convenience of e-ticketing would come at a price. Users opting to book e-tickets through the cash mode would have to shell out a transaction charge of Rs 15 in case of a sleeper class ticket and Rs 25 in case of AC ticket.

This is over and above the stipulated e-ticket charges of Rs 25 and Rs 40 for these two categories, respectively, in addition to the cost of the ticket itself. It is pertinent to mention that a maximum of six passengers can be booked under one ticket.

Railway minister flags off first cyber cafe on Station

web-admin — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700

The Statseman, Kolkotta reports about the Asansol station, for the first time in the history of Eastern Railways, will have a cyber cafe with 2 mpbs Internet broadband and audio-video conferencing

Cyber cafe boom to drive e-commerce craze in India

web-admin — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800

Economic Times MUMBAI reports : Online commerce is projected to jump more than four times to about Rs 2,300 crore in ‘06-07 as a rapid growth in cyber cafes across the nation spur a craze for internet shopping.

Internet users did online business worth about Rs 570 crore in ‘04-05. The figure is expected to grow to Rs 2,300 crore by ‘06-07, according to a report titled ‘Online activities and e-commerce from cyber cafes’ conducted by the Internet and Mobile Association of India.

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Govt of India plans to roll out 100000 Internet enabled centres in villages

web-admin — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0700

The Govt of India released a draft frame work for roll out of over 100000 common Service centres.

Advances in Information and Communication Technologies have made it possible today to provide a whole range of high-quality and cost-effective services relating to video, voice and data content through a single communication channel using appropriate terminal equipment. This opens up a whole realm of possibilities for provision of e-government, entertainment, education, telemedicine, e-commerce, info-services, etc. ubiquitously. Government of India is committed to leveraging these advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for the benefit of the citizens, especially those in rural and remote areas. It is therefore considered necessary to create a network of access points termed Common Services Centres(CSCs) throughout the country as outlets for such services.

A Common Services Centre is an ICT-enabled Service Delivery outlet providing a range of services to the people in the village / town in which it is located. Various nomenclatures e.g., Common Services Centre, ICT Kiosk, Community Information Centre, e-Community Centre, Rural Service Delivery Points, Village/Rural Knowledge Centre, etc. currently exist in the country for such Integrated Service Delivery Centres, providing similar services to citizens. For the sake of clarity and uniformity, throughout this document, all such Centres are universally termed as Common Services Centres (CSCs).

Download the document : CSCframework.doc ( MS-Word )

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