The sale of tickets for May 31 began at 9am at five places in the capital including Kamalapur Railway Station on Wednesday. Railways Minster Nurul Islam Sujon visited the Kamalapur Railway Station around 10am to monitor the ticket sales and acknowledged the technical issues with the e-ticketing service. The tickets will go on sale at counters on May 27 if the problems are not rectified within that time, he added. Bangladesh Railway is selling 25,591 tickets on the first day with advance tickets for 13 inter-city trains being sold at Kamalapur. Apart from Kamalapur, tickets are being sold at four other places for the first time in an effort to alleviate the sufferings of holidaymakers.

Source: bd News24 May 22, 2019 07:07 UTC