India, Jan. 4 -- In a major step towards streamlining digital ticketing, Indian Railways has begun migrating passengers from the older Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS) mobile application to its new unified platform, RailOne. As part of this transition, the Railways have permanently discontinued the issuance and renewal of season passes on the UTS app, though no deadline has yet been announced for the complete withdrawal of UTS from public use.

RailOne is being positioned as a comprehensive "super app" that brings together nearly all passenger-facing railway services under a single digital platform. Unlike UTS, which was limited to unreserved (general) tickets and season passes, RailOne allows passengers to book both reserved and unreser...