Over the past one and a half months, more than 13 lakh commuters have used QR-coded tickets on the Sector Five-Sealdah and Esplanade-Howrah Maidan stretches of the Kolkata Metro, as reported by Metro Railway spokesperson Kausik Mitra on Tuesday (May 14).
From April 1 to May 13, a total of 13,19,173 paper-based QR tickets were sold at various ticket counters for Sector Five-Sealdah (Green Line 1) and Esplanade-Howrah Maidan (Green Line 2), according to an official statement.
Metro Ride Kolkata app
Additionally, commuters have increasingly adopted QR code-based tickets through the ‘Metro Ride Kolkata’ app, using their smartphones for added convenience. During this period, over 9,300 tickets were purchased via the app.
The Metro Railway spokesperson also disclosed that Metro Railways has generated over Rs 1.66 crore from the sale of paper-based QR tickets and over Rs 1.5 lakh from mobile-based QR tickets.
Since its launch on March 5, 2022, the ‘Metro Ride Kolkata’ app has been downloaded by over 4.79 lakh Android users. Recently, the app was also made available to iOS users, with 4,700 downloads recorded from the Apple Play Store.
The Sector V station in the Sealdah-Sector V corridor serves a large number of IT professionals.