In cognizance with the Railways' efforts to normalize passenger services and return in a phased manner to the pre-coronavirus levels of service, the Railways’ Passenger Reservation System (PRS) will be shut down for 6 hours during the lean business hours of the night for the coming seven days stated the Central Railways on Sunday, November 14.
This is being undertaken to enable upgradation of system data and new train numbers etc. Since a large number of past (old train numbers) and current passenger booking data are to be updated in all Mail/ Express trains, this is being planned in a series of carefully calibrated steps and implemented during night hours in order to minimize the impact on ticketing services.
The activity will be performed starting from the intervening night of 14 and 15-Nov to the night of 20 and 21-Nov starting at 23:30 hrs and ending at 0530 hrs.
During these 6 hours (from 23:30 to 05:30 hrs) period, no PRS Services (ticket Reservation, current booking, cancellation, enquiry services etc) will be available.
In this time frame, the railway personnel will ensure the advance charting for the trains departing during the affected timings. Except for the PRS services, all other enquiry services including 139 services will continue uninterrupted.
The authorities have thus, requested the passengers to support them in the effort to normalize and upgrade the passenger services, whilst also following COVID-19 appropriate behaviour.
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