New Delhi: In what comes as a reduction to commuters, the Indian Railways has prolonged the computerisation of the Parcel Management System (PMS) to over 500 locations.
Earlier the power was restricted to 84 locations. This has been elevated to 143 locations in phase-II and 523 locations in phase-III.
Ministry of Railways stated that the PMS has been present process complete transformation and is geared to offering transportation for small consignments, over an enormous community of stations.
“Small businesses and traders (especially in smaller cities and towns) have been using these services for transportation of their merchandises from bigger cities and production centres to the place of their business in a fast, reliable and cheap manner,” the ministry was quoted as saying by IANS.
“Common man also uses these services for transportation of household goods, furniture, two-wheeler for which parcel services are the only convenient mode of transportation,” the ministry added.
The ministry additional stated that the parcels are charged solely on the premise of weight and quantity and never on the premise of the kind of commodity. The PMS service is now additionally geared up with advance reserving of parcel, 120 days earlier than the consignment date.
The ministry acknowledged that barcoding on every consignment is finished for monitoring of parcel and standing updation of packages via GPRS community by way of the transmission of information from handheld cellular units via scanning of barcodes.
“In order to undertake further modernization or revamp of PMS, as per the directions of Railway Board, QCI has been engaged to study the system and to suggest further improvements based on the customer feedback and the latest trends in this sector,” the ministry stated.
