OREANDA-NEWS.   Computerised Passenger Reservation System facility is available at 3139 locations, out of which 2378 are at railway stations. Sanctioning of locations for Computerised Passenger Reservation System is a continuous process. Locations are sanctioned as per policy at stations where reservation related workload is at least 100 transactions per day or at District Headquarters, important hill stations/tourist & pilgrimages centres post offices on the basis of proposals received from Public/Public representatives and the Zonal Railways.

 Additionally, as per budget announcement of 2009-10, each Member of Parliament was also invited to recommend a location for passenger reservation facility.

 This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri Kotla Jaya Surya Prakash Reddy in written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.