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AP government to take up cinema tickets booking!

AP government to take up cinema tickets booking!

Even as the Telugu film industry has been requesting Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy to allow enhancement of ticket prices in cinema theatres and allow them to run additional shows, the state government has come up with yet another startling decision.

The state government has now decided to take up online sale of tickets in theatres – both single screen theatres and multiplexes across the state.

An order (GO No. 782) to this effect was issued by Kumar Vishwajeet, principal secretary of the home department on August 31 and it came to light on Wednesday.

According to this order, the state government would develop a portal for online booking of cinema tickets on the lines of online railway reservation ticketing system.

This portal for online booking of cinema tickets would be managed by AP State Film, Television and Theatre Development Corporation.

A committee has been constituted to work out a blueprint, develop and implement the online ticketing system for cinema theatres.

The committee will comprise principal secretary, home department as chairman and principal secretary, IT department as co-chairman

The other members of the committee include: secretary, information and public relations and managing director of AP state film, television and theatre development corporation, representative of commissioner, commercial taxes; managing director of AP Technological Services, joint collectors (revenue) of Krishna and Guntur districts, and special secretary to the IT department.

The order does not mention in how many days the committee will look into the development of portal and bring it into implementation.

Apparently, the Jagan government has taken the decision to enter into online cinema ticket sale business only to prevent the theatres to underplay the collections in order to avoid payment of entertainment tax.

The government believes that it would bring in transparency into the whole system, so that would bring more tax revenue to the state as well as show actual revenues to the theatres.

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