02-01-2021 | 12:57 PM
National Common Mobility Card
Context
Recently the Prime Minister recently inaugurated fully operational National Common Mobility Card service on the Airport Express Line of Delhi Metro. It willl enable people to pay multiple kinds of transport charges, including metro services and toll tax across the country.
Highlights
NCMC is an automatic fare collection system. It will convert smartphones into an inter-operable transport card which commuters can use eventually to pay for Metro, bus and suburban railways services.
The idea of National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) was floated by the Nandan Nilekani committee set up by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
The Delhi government also introduced a common mobility card for Metro trains, Delhi Transport Corporation and cluster buses in December 2018. However, these cards cannot be used for the payment of parking fees, at toll booths in the Capital, or for retail.
This card runs on a RuPay card.
The stored value on card facilitates offline transaction across all travel needs with minimal financial risk to the involved stakeholders.
This one card will give integrated access to the commuters wherever they travel or whichever public transport they take.
