MORE THAN 2.5 LAKHS COMMUTERS DOWNLOAD
‘METRO RIDE KOLKATA’ APP SO FAR
Kolkata, March 6, 2023
‘Metro Ride Kolkata App’ developed by Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) has been a hit among users. Commuters have appreciated this app as it is very user-friendly and it enables users to book QR Code Based Tickets or recharge Smart Cards very easily at any time. Passengers can also get desired and useful data through this app. For the benefit of the commuters, the ‘Metro Ride Kolkata’ App was launched on March 5, 2022. Seeing its popularity among users, the Metro authorities have already planned to make it a tri-lingual App. So, passengers who are not that proficient in English will be able to use its Hindi or Bengali version. It is expected that this initiative will make this App more user-friendly and popular.
Till March 5, 2023, a total of 2,56,369 commuters have downloaded this App having a rating of 4.6 from Google Play Store. In order to make more commuters aware of this App, special promotional films on how to download and use this App are also being shown on platform televisions of North-South and East-West Metro stations. Social Media platforms are also being used to popularize this App. Metro staff have also been helping passengers to download this App from the Google Play Store and showing them the procedure to use it at different stations.
It is helping Metro commuters to save time, as they don’t need to stand in long queues in front of the booking counters to re-charge their Smart Cards or purchase tokens.
