Indian Railways is set to launch a next-generation Passenger Reservation System (PRS) capable of handling over 1.5 lakh ticket bookings per minute, significantly boosting booking capacity and improving the overall ticketing experience for passengers. New Delhi: Indian Railways is set to roll out a vastly upgraded Passenger Reservation System (PRS) that can process over 1.5 lakh ticket bookings per minute, a quantum leap from the current capacity of about 32,000 bookings a minute, as the national transporter moves to a cloud-enabled, next-generation platform to cope with surging digital demand. It serves over 20.5 lakh passengers daily through counters, the IRCTC website and mobile apps, with around 73% of transactions cashless. But the system, whose roots go back to a computerised reservation platform introduced in 1986, was originally built for a different scale of digital traffic. Key features of the next-gen PRS include:* Capacity jump: From about 32,000 bookings/minute to over 1.5 lakh bookings/minute.