Railways Now Keeping Record of Destination Address of Passengers for Contact Tracing

New Delhi, May 14: The India railways has started keeping records of the destination address of all passengers booking their tickets on the IRCTC website.

This initiative has been taken to help facilitate contact tracing in case coronavirus infections are detected among the passengers later, officials said on Thursday.

The provision to include the destination address has been made on the IRCTC website from May 13.

"With effect from May 13, IRCTC taking destination address of all passengers booking tickets. This will help in contact tracing, if required later," Railway spokesperson RD Bajpai said.