IRCTC has recently made a lot of changes in rules regarding online booking of tickets. Most of these changes are around tatkal ticket booking, however, one interesting change is that you don’t need to carry printout of your e-tickets. You can now show a picture of your ticket on your mobile or laptop and it will be accepted as a valid proof. You also need to have a valid Id proof along with the screen-shot of your ticket. The acceptable Id proofs are the ones as earlier.

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As per IRCTC’s website there are around 3 lac railway tickets being booked daily. If instead of printing the e-tickets people start taking screen-shots of their e-tickets it will definitely help save a lot of paper and thus trees. But I doubt if anybody will really carry his/her laptop just for the purpose of showing the screen shot of the ticket.

Will you click the picture of your ticket on your mobile and take it along instead of the paper ticket?