Karnataka Railway tickets will be soon printed in Kannada

Team Udayavani, Mar 1, 2018, 4:39 PM IST

Bengaluru: After constant requests by the Kannada activists, Railway tickets will now be imprinted in Kannada, along with Hindi and English. This move by the South Western Railway authorities has conveyed cheer to them.

According to the sources, the tickets which are printed at station counters will be accessible in Kannada, while tickets booked online are yet to be made accessible in the language. Open tickets with information in Kannada will be accessible in automated passenger reservation counters in Bengaluru.

Karnataka isn’t the only one in requesting the consideration of local dialects, as states like Tamil Nadu have additionally requested that tickets and authority applications and forms be accessible in the local dialect and have pushed for a two-dialect arrangement of English and the local dialect rather than Hindi. The Indian Railways traveller amenities panel had endorsed a proposition to print tickets in the local dialect, along with English and Hindi from January 1, 2018.

In July 2017, members of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike had ruined Hindi signs in metro stations crosswise over Bengaluru. Activists of the Vedike had requested that the three-dialect approach be expelled and that the state government execute a two-dialect strategy of Kannada and English as it were. Consequently, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had kept in touch with the Center, requesting that it arrange the Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) to bring down the sign sheets in Hindi. But BMRCL has not taken any actions and has not brought down the Hindi signboards.