Metro commuters are able to purchase paper-based QR code tickets from two more stations, apart from Sealdah and Salt Lake Sector V. Such ticketing system has been introduced in Karunamoyee and Central Park Metro stations of East-West Metro (Green Line) from the evening of January 4.
As a result, out of the eight operational stations of the Green Line, commuters will be able to purchase such tickets at four stations.
This alternative ticketing system was introduced first in Green Line on October 11, 2023 at the Sealdah Metro station. The Centre for Railway Information Systems has developed this system which, the Metro Railway authorities say, has already become popular among the Metro commuters.
According to the authorities, expansion of the ticketing system will be extended further to enable Metro commuters to avail services by purchasing paper-based QR code ticket from all the stations of Green Line.
All the gates of different stations of the Green Line have been upgraded to sense and read the new tickets.
The Metro authorities are hopeful that if the paper-based QR code ticketing system is successful in East-West Metro then gradually it will also be implemented on the Kavi Subhas to Dakshineswar and the Joka to Taratala stretches of the Blue Line and the Purple Line respectively.