Published 14:33 IST, June 29th 2022
Indian Railways officer earns praises for 'superfast' speed in booking tickets; watch
In a video which is going viral, a man is seen booking tickets at a superfast speed from an Automatic Ticket Vending Machine (ATVM) at a railway station. Watch.
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Waiting for your turn while standing in a long queue to take train tickets from the ticket counter at the railway station is no fun. In big cities where being a few seconds late can cost you your train, long queues at the ticket counter are worrisome. However, if you have this superfast man at your ticket counter, you have nothing to be worried about.
In a video which is going viral, a man is seen booking tickets from the Automatic Ticket Vending Machine (ATVM) at a railway station. Notably, the ATVM is a ticket vending machine introduced by the Indian Railways to reduce passengers queuing up at the ticket counter. In the viral video, a Railway officer is seen booking tickets using the ATVM machine at a superfast speed and helping the passengers save time. The video has been shared by the 'Mumbai Railway Users' on their Twitter page with the caption: "Somewhere in Indian Railways this guy is so fast giving tickets to 3 passengers in 15 seconds."
Somewhere in Indian Railways this guy is so fast giving tickets to 3 passengers in 15 seconds. pic.twitter.com/1ZGnirXA9d
— Mumbai Railway Users (@mumbairailusers) June 28, 2022
Netizens react to Indian Railways' 'superfast' ticket booking man
Reacting to the viral video of the 'superfast' speed of this railway officer, netizens are calling him a "dedicated and prompt employee of the Indian Railways".
Mayur Patel, a Twitter user called the 'superfast' railway officer "queue-angel" and said that people like them are helpful.
They are #railway #queueangles
— Mayur Patel (@MayurPa50428870) June 29, 2022
They are the fastest and helpful people.. best and smart work by railway people
Another Twitter user, Jose Varghese, said, "Indian Railways needs such dedicated and prompt employees to augment efficiency and passenger comfort."
Indian Railways needs such dedicated and prompt employees to augment efficiency and passenger comfort.Good luck and long life to the prompt guy.
— Jose Varghese (@JoseVar33995646) June 29, 2022
A third Twitter user asked Indian Railways to show the video to the ticket window staff to motivate them to work like the man in the viral video.
Train your ticket window staff as well to work so well. Show them this video as a motivation
— Mohammed (@csmohd) June 29, 2022
He should have been inside the ticket counter not out side...super fast
— marian007 (@SurajSharma8692) June 29, 2022
Some of the netizens also lauded the ATVM machines for responding so quickly. One of the netizens said, "Never seen any vending machine responding so quickly to human interaction." Another Twitter user name Malav Shah said, "The kiosk system is similarly fast (no loading screens), that’s surprising. "
Kudos to the developer of the vending machine. Never seen any vending machine responding so quickly to human interaction.
— Monkwithoutferrari (@Monkwithoutfer1) June 29, 2022
The kiosk system is similarly fast (no loading screens), that’s surprising.
— Malav Shah (@malav_shah) June 29, 2022
ATVM machine
To solve the long and standing queues at the ticketing counters of the railway stations, Indian Railways introduced Automatic Ticket Vending Machine (ATVM). It is an unmanned, smart card-based touch-screen ticketing kiosk for purchasing unreserved tickets. Passengers can purchase the smart card and recharge it from the nominated ticket counters.
14:33 IST, June 29th 2022