In order to provide a ‘better service to commuters and growing passengers at Metro Rail’, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has decided to install smartcard top-up facilities at its Automatic Fare Collection gates.
The new service will allow commuters to automatically recharge their smartcards through the bank accounts of card holders.
DMRC has ‘started procuring the AFC gates to make this a reality and currently working on the finalisation of the technologies which will be used for this facility’.
It is expected that this facility will be made available to the commuters in another seven to eight months.
Currently, tokens and smartcards can be purchased or recharged only by paying cash at specified counters, machines or customer care centers at Metro stations.
DMRC is also developing a new technology through which Delhi Metro commuters will be able to recharge their smartcards through various options such as internet banking, credit cards and debit cards, Delhi Metro said.
At present, more than six million smart cards are in the circulation in the Delhi Metro network and close to 12,000 smart cards are being sold each day from the Metro stations and about 650,000 tokens are sold every day.
