Indian Railways to upgrade '1 Lakh Reservations Per Minute'

Railway authorities of India is upgrading the current passenger reservation system to handle over 1 lakh tickets per minute from existing 25,000, according to the Centre government.

Indian Railway authorities is undertaking complete upgraded system of passenger reservation system (PRS) through Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS). The revamp of PRS involves upgradation and replacement of hardware, software, network



equipment, security infrastructure and functionalities on new technology with design capable of handling new features.

The current PRS system was deployed in 2010 and runs over Itanium servers and open VMS(Virtual Memory System). The current PRS system requires upgradation from legacy technology systems to latest cloud technology compliant systems, said Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw in the Parliament.