Southern Railway on Thursday announced further relaxation of restrictions for people traveling in suburban trains with immediate effect. An official release said that all types of tickets will be issued to all classes of people traveling including students.
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“General male category which was earlier restricted to travel during peak hours (7 am to 9.30 am and 4.30 pm to 7 pm) are now allowed to travel if they are carrying any ID card to prove their identity. Produce a two-dose COVID vaccination certificate with when buying tickets. They will be issued with all tickets (single/return) including season tickets.
Further, the restriction will continue for male passengers, except students, to travel during peak hours without authorization letter/ID card from their workplace and who do not present two dose vaccination certificate.
They will be issued only single journey tickets during non-peak hours, the release said.
Inauguration of new data center of Southern Railway
Meanwhile, the Southern Railway on Wednesday inaugurated a new modern data center here, which will replace the decades-old facility, which used to cater to various ticketing functions in its three zones. The Southern Railway data center caters to Passenger Reservation System (PRS), Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS) and mobile ticketing system on Southern, South West and South Central Railway, an official release said.
The old data center was established in 1985 and has become overcrowded over the years and the infrastructure needs to be renovated to meet the steady growth, including IRCTC’s online ticketing platform touching thousands of counters and over nine lakh tickets per day. badly needed.
This necessitated the setting up of a new data center on the second floor of the Chennai Moor Market Complex.
“The new data center replaces the old 1980 data center in the same building near Chennai Central Railway Station. The Chennai Regional Data Center houses PRS, UTS, mobile ticketing, servers of the National Train Inquiry System and many other services and applications for the public as well as the internal working of the Railways. The new data center complex comprises of renovated and refurbished offices of Chief Commercial Manager/Passenger Marketing, Center for Railway Information Systems (CRIS), Railway Console Office, Data Base Management Office along with server communication equipment, service providers and other technical requirements. ,” the release said.
It has 16 racks for servers, 10 racks for communication equipment and includes provision to accommodate future growth for the next 20 years/16 more racks.
The new data center has the latest and state-of-the-art technology and security systems.
“From the night of Saturday (August 28), the old data center was closed and all ticketing activities, charting activities were going on from the Disaster Recovery Site at South Central Railway, Secunderabad. The Chennai server finally became fully online at around 1.30 am today when the booting activity was successfully carried out at the new premises.”
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