HT Bureau
GUWAHATI, May 14:Â With the mission to become carbon neutral and increase efficiency, Northeast Frontier Railway has decided to go paperless, as far as freight business is concerned, and implement a digital mode of generating the Railway Receipts (RR), both for (consignor & consignee). For the same, it has introduced Electronic Transmission of Railway Receipt (eT-RR) to replace the manual Railway Receipt (RR) system gradually.
From April 1 to May 12, 2022, eT-RR marked a steady growth of adoption by the customers in the entire freight business. In the month of April, 2022 all five divisions of NFR issued 552 numbers of eT-RR out of a total of 622 Railway Receipts, which is 88.7% of the Railway Receipts generated. Thereafter, from May 1 to May 12, out of total of 236 Railway Receipts, 219 eT-RR were issued which is 92.8 %
RR (Railway Receipt) is a vital document, in the entire chain of freight business of Railways. It is like an acknowledgement receipt of goods for transportation by railways. The owner of original Railway Receipt is supposed to be the owner of the goods. In the earlier system, the customers used to face the problem of delay in taking delivery of goods. Earlier, whenever the freight trains reach its destination, the original Railway Receipts were supposed to be produced (both by consignor and consignee), which itself used to be a time taking process for its procurement. The new system of transmission of RR electronically, eliminates this problem entirely.
Further, system of generating eT-RR has been enabled in almost all the functioning locations of freight business in the Divisions under NFR. The new system introduced is a very simple, secure & user-friendly system which would immensely benefit freight customers. Railway Receipt, a mandatory document, for effecting delivery of goods, is generated, transmitted and surrendered or deposited electronically saving time for the freight service consumers thus promoting more trade for NFR.
