The Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) has deployed Android-based Intelligent Ticket Issuing Machines (I-TIMs) in as many as 14 high-end buses of its various depots in Karimnagar region plying on different routes as part of a pilot project aimed at promoting cashless transactions.
In a step forward to give a fillip to cashless transactions, the public transport entity has supplied as many as 73 i TIMs to the Karimnagar region comprising a total of 10 bus depots under the ambitious pilot project in the first phase.
Of these, 14 devices equipped with mobile SIM cards have already been operationalised in several long-distance bus services under the limits of the Karimnagar-I, Karimnagar-II, Jagtial, Korutla, Metpally, Godavarikhani and Manthani bus depots, TSRTC sources said.