NEW DELHI : To keep a tab on movement of all passengers in the wake of the spread of the highly contagious disease coronavirus, the Indian Railways has asked IRCTC to collect information on destination of passengers. "With effect from May 13, IRCTC is taking destination address of all passengers booking tickets.
This will help in contact tracing, if required later," Railway spokesperson RD Bajpai said, adding it would now be a permanent feature for the near future.
The government will use the data to facilitate contact tracing in case COVID-19 infections are detected among the train passengers later on.
A provision related to include the destination address has been made on the IRCTC website from yesterday. Earlier, in at least 12 cases,