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MobiKwik, India's largest independent mobile payments network, is now the first payment option on IRCTC Connect Android App.
This association will enable MobiKwik users to book railway tickets in a convenient and secure manner from their smartphones.
With approximately 25,000 to 30,000 tickets booked daily via IRCTC Android App, MobiKwik expects to spike the per day online ticket sales thanks to the ease of mobile wallet usage for payments.
Commenting on the partnership, MobiKwik Founder and CEO Bipin Preet Singh said that MobiKwik users can now book all their rail tickets in a flash now that MobiKwik is integrated with IRCTC Connect app.
"It gives us great pleasure to announce that IRCTC has chosen MobiKwik as its preferred mobile wallet partner. MobiKwik wallet offering utmost ease and security in transactions, is bound to spike pan India booking of rail tickets via IRCTC mobile App", he said.
Thus, partnering with IRCTC, which drives the largest number of digital transactions in the country, MobiKwik gives a thrust to the Government's mandate of boosting wider adoption of digital money in India, Singh added.
Crossing online sales worth $ 3 billion for the year ended March 2015, IRCTC became the largest e-commerce platform in the country.
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