facilities for commuters, Delhi Metro
Thursday launched online recharge
facility for smart card users.
"With this new facility, commuters will
now be able to top up their smart
cards using debit or credit cards.
However, recharge using net-banking
facility is not available yet," a DMRC
official said.
Metro commuters can top up their
smart cards through
www.delhimetrorail.com and
www.dmrcsmartcard.com.
After completing the top up process,
the commuters will be able to check if
their recharge was successful via
Ticket Reader-cum-Add Value
machines.
The first Ticket Reader-cum-Add
Value machine was inaugurated today
at the Barakhamba Road Metro
station by DMRC Managing Director
Mangu Singh.
Thirty-nine such touch-screen
machines have been installed at 13
Metro stations Dilshad Garden,
Shahadara, Welcome, Seelampur,
Shastri Park, Pragati Maidan,
Karkardooma, Nirman Vihar, Laxmi
Nagar, Barakhamba Road, R K
Ashram Marg, Jhandewalan and
Rajendra Place, he said.
About a hundred such machines will be
installed in the coming month, Singh
said.
The machines will also provide
commuters with information about
balance in the smart card, last
recharge details and the last five
entry-exit transactions.
At present, about 69.75 per cent of
Metro commuters use smart cards
and about 17,000 smart cards are
sold every day from various stations
of the network.
Currently, one crore metro cards have
been issued and are in circulation.
DMRC has partnered with ICICI Bank
for the launch of this online automated
fare collection process and the bank
has integrated its payment gateway
with the two websites for recharging
smart cards through the Internet.
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