What could not be achieved during normal times may actually happen due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a far-reaching decision, Mumbai local stations, known to be most crowded and usually free to access, will now get Metro-style access control flap entry/exit gates starting at Mumbai CSMT.

To aid this, ticket checkers from Friday have been given Optical Character Recognition (OCR) ticket scanners (text readers) at Mumbai CSMT where TCs can scan all kinds of tickets and not just QR codes.