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Indian Railways Launches Mobile App For Customer Complaints

Want To Complain About The Indian Railways? There's An App For That
KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL, INDIA - 2015/02/26: An over crowded train station in Bidhannagar Station were people falling in line to get in the train. The Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu presented the Railway Budget 2015-2016 in the Lok Sabha. (Photo by Bhaskar Mallick/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL, INDIA - 2015/02/26: An over crowded train station in Bidhannagar Station were people falling in line to get in the train. The Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu presented the Railway Budget 2015-2016 in the Lok Sabha. (Photo by Bhaskar Mallick/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

New Delhi — Indian Railways on Monday became the first company in the country to provide customer complaint services on a mobile app besides providing the facility online by launching a complaint management system (Coms).

The Coms comprises the mobile app, an online portal backed by a centralised grievance redressal monitoring system and a mobile network messaging facility.

"Passengers can also SMS their complaints on the mobile number," the railway authorities said in a statement.

Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Monday said the app and the web portal will act as a suggestion forum as the complaint can be tracked once the supplicant registers with the app or online.

COMS

He said the railways welcome suggestions from people to further improve passenger services and valuable suggestions on this newly launched portal can be incorporated in all possible ways, if found suitable.

Indian Railways said the mobile app was launched on the Android platform and will be soon available in Windows phones.

"Complaints will be provided with a unique complaint ID number (and) complainants can use the unique ID number to track progress of complaints," the authorities said.

MR @sureshpprabhu launch of Customer Complaint Portal and Application at Rail Bhavan today. pic.twitter.com/XKWZ8nWVJ2

— Ministry of Railways (@RailMinIndia) March 2, 2015

COMS-The complaints and suggestions on URL http://t.co/0Et014YKvv & SMS complaints and suggestions on the number 9717630982.

— Ministry of Railways (@RailMinIndia) March 3, 2015

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