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Indian Railways: IITian's app to help tackle waiting-list woes
Two students, one of them from IIT, have launched a mobile app which uses an unique algorithm to find out alternative routes for getting seats in train.
KOLKATA: Two students, one of them from IIT, have launched a mobile app which uses an unique algorithm to find out alternative routes for getting seats in train.
"There are some station-wise quotas for ticket booking. For example if you are booking a ticket from station A, it might show waiting list but when you book it from a previous station you might get the ticket. If you try to find out such stations manually it becomes tough but our app has automated this," the app's co-developer Runal Jaju told.
The 'Ticket Jugaad' app is developed by second year IIT Kharagpur student Jaju and his cousin Shubham Baldava, who studies in NIT Jamshedpur.
Supported by Entrepreneurship Cell of IIT, the startup won the first prize of Rs 1.5 lakh in IIT Kharagpur's Annual Global Business Model Competition recently.
The app automatically finds available tickets starting from stations before or after the source station to provide passengers the maximum path that can be covered with a confirmed ticket.
The Railways allows passengers to board the train from a station which comes after the booking station.
"What we do is to provide you with all the possible permutations and combinations to cover the maximum part of your journey," the 20-year-old engineering student said.
Jaju said some ticket agents are experts in manually calculating such combinations to find seats but they charge a hefty fee from passengers.
