Guwahati: Replacing the manual railway receipt, Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has chosen to go paperless by rolling out eT-RR (Electronic Transmission of Railway Receipt).
Currently, NFR is issuing about 76% of total Receipt through eT-RR.
What is Railway Receipt?
Railway Receipt (RR) is a vital document, in the entire chain of freight business of Railways. It is like an acknowledgement of receipt of goods for transportation by rail. The owner of the original Railway Receipt is supposed to be the owner of the goods.
In the earlier system, the printed RR once generated used to be given to rail customer who loaded the consignment (consignor) after completing loading in goods train and after paying all railway freight charges. The Consignor, in turn, had to further transfer it to the consignee, who would take delivery of goods at destination, through post or courier. At the destination station, delivery of consignment was given on surrender of original RR by customer.
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Earlier, customers used to face delay in taking delivery, whenever the goods train reaches the destination earlier than the original RR. The new system of transmission of RR electronically eliminates this problem.
The new system is simple, hassle-free and user friendly, which would immensely benefit freight customers. In this system, for effecting delivery of goods, RR is generated, transmitted and surrendered or deposited electronically.
System of generating eT-RR has been enabled in almost all the functioning locations of freight business on the Division. The entire process is carried through the FOIS portal (https://www.fois.indianrail.gov.in). To avail, customers (both consignors and consignees) have to pre-register themselves at the nearest Railway Division, where they carry out their business. On doing so, each customer organization would get a Global Customer Code. The customers can register themselves at FOIS portal after getting the Global Customer Code and can avail the facility of eT-RR, said a release from NFR.
Railway has already introduced the system of placement of demand for wagons electronically (e-RD module) through FOIS portal. 3895 customer have already been registered using this mode, and 75% of the total demand was registered through this electronic mode.
With the inception of E-RD module, a customer does not need to visit Railway premises for registering their demand.