OREANDA-NEWS. August 09, 2011. Electronic devices in the form of Hand Held Terminals (HHT) have been provided to the Ticket Checking Staff in about 11 pairs of trains as a pilot project, reported the press-centre of Indian Railways.

These devices are used for marking passengers as turned up/not-turned up, giving information on vacant berths availability to passengers at stations and on the website, facilitating greater transparency in the on-board allocation of berths and system accountal of ticket checking transactions.