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New Delhi: In a bid to encourage people to use smart cards or ticket vending machines (TVM), Delhi Metro is planning to close down ticket counters. The counters will be closed at stations where the footfall is less. To promote use of smart card, during Phase III all the upcoming Delhi metro stations will only have TVMs.  Ticket counters and TVMs will be made available on at interchange Delhi Metro stations. Currently the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has closed counters at 118 stations out of 180 stations located in National Capital Region (NCR) and Delhi. In order to make usage of smart card easier, they have installed 520 machines at various stations. Those stations which have over 5,000 commuters on daily basis will have both the facilities – ticket counters as well as TVMs to make travel easier. Delhi Metro officials shared that in the initial stages commuters might find it tough to operate machines. It is known that TVMs do have calibration issues and these need ...

New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) planning to close all token counters at metro stations in the coming time. DMRC has started to install tokens vending machine (TVM) at all the metro stations. DMRC has decided to make all metro stations counterless. DMRC will soon complete this project. According to the reports, the work of converting existing token counters to 519 TVMs at 118 stations of Delhi Metro has already been completed. At present, the token counter will be available only at the stations where the railway station and bus terminals are interlinked. DMRC Spokesperson informed about the creation of counter equipment to the stations that the Delhi Metro currently has 183 metro stations and the number of stations will be 227 along with the construction of Phase-3. The task of making all these counters is underway. According to DMRC MD Mangu Singh, he wants to increase the use of Metro smart card among the passengers. There are a total of 183 stations in the metro, ...

New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) planning to close all token counters at metro stations in the coming time. DMRC has started to install tokens vending machine (TVM) at all the metro stations. DMRC has decided to make all metro stations counterless. DMRC will soon complete this project. According to the reports, the work of converting existing token counters to 519 TVMs at 118 stations of Delhi Metro has already been completed. At present, the token counter will be available only at the stations where the railway station and bus terminals are interlinked. DMRC Spokesperson informed about the creation of counter equipment to the stations that the Delhi Metro currently has 183 metro stations and the number of stations will be 227 along with the construction of Phase-3. The task of making all these counters is underway. According to DMRC MD Mangu Singh, he wants to increase the use of Metro smart card among the passengers. There are a total of 183 stations in the metro, ...

Lucknow: To promote the usage of the automatic Recharge Card Terminal Machine (RCTM) and the automatic Token Vending Machine (TVM) installed at Metro stations, the Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC) shall be undertaking a three day “special drive” from 8th February to 10th February 2018 at all the eight operational Metro stations between the Transport Nagar and the Charbagh. According to press release, during this special drive LMRC shall be selling the single journey travel tokens and recharging the ‘GoSmart’ travel cards for passengers through the automatic Recharge Card Terminal Machine (RCTM) and the automatic Token Vending Machine (TVM) only. All Metro commuters shall be encouraged to purchase the tokens and recharge their smart cards through these terminals during this period. The Ticket Operating Machine (TOM) meant for manual sale of tokens/smart cards at all Metro stations will be closed throughout the commercial revenue hours duri...

Lucknow: To promote the usage of the automatic Recharge Card Terminal Machine (RCTM) and the automatic Token Vending Machine (TVM) installed at Metro stations, the Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC) shall be undertaking a three day “special drive” from 8th February to 10th February 2018 at all the eight operational Metro stations between the Transport Nagar and the Charbagh. According to press release, during this special drive LMRC shall be selling the single journey travel tokens and recharging the ‘GoSmart’ travel cards for passengers through the automatic Recharge Card Terminal Machine (RCTM) and the automatic Token Vending Machine (TVM) only. All Metro commuters shall be encouraged to purchase the tokens and recharge their smart cards through these terminals during this period. The Ticket Operating Machine (TOM) meant for manual sale of tokens/smart cards at all Metro stations will be closed throughout the commercial revenue hours duri...