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LUDHIANA: Northern Railways authorities will soon provide unreserved tickets to rail commuters through a mobile app, as the Indian Railways takes another major step towards its initiative for paperless ticketing. Moreover, rail commuters will be able to get a hard copy of the tickets from the vending machines installed for that purpose at the station. "One of the rail commuters, Rajan Sharma, stated: "I have got my unreserved tickets after standing for more than two to three hours at general ticket counters. If the railways starts this facility at Ludhiana station — which is considered one of the biggest stations under Northern Railways authorities — then the passenger's time can be saved." He further claimed that "as per the plan, one may have to download the app from the Google Play store for Android-based mobile phones..