Bandra Garib-Rath - नाम से गरीब, लेकिन मेरे दिल के करीब - Abdul Rehman

Why IR reward the Rly Reservation counter transactions and punish the online ticket booking
(1) by levying transaction charge on the online ticket booking
(2) not permitting onward reservation in online booking
inspite of the fact that online transactions are always traceable and white money where as there is no traceability in cash transactions at booking counters, a significant part of it...
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may be black money. Also selling tickets is a costly proposition as it involve maintaing booking counters and staff.
Online transaction has to be promoted as a matter of policy in each and every activity/policy of govt, just promoting online transactions at the backdrop of demonetisation shall not give the desired result.

Central Govt wants India to go cash less so that almost all the transactions are traceable and it becomes easy to catch the tax evaders and increase the tax base and reduce the tax rates. Today only 1-2 % people actually pay income tax. There are many people (esp doing business, private consultants etc) avoid income tax thru false declarations. If they can be brought into taxnet by their spendings, the tax base shall widen and the revenue can be generated by having much lower rate of taxes which people shall like to comply with rather than to evade. High tax rates promote tax evasion.
This is a matter of comparision of online transaction thru IRCTC vs. cash transaction at counters. ...
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If online booking is cheaper and more convenient, then it will become more popular.
Looting is a different issue. It is a policy matter of IR to extract maximum from passengers irrespective of the quality of service provided (esp ACIII,AACII,ACC,SL classes)