VIJAYAWADA: The state government plans to sell movie tickets online soon.
An online portal is in the final stages of development through which the government wants to make tickets available for filmgoers.
The government has already constituted a high-level committee to execute the task of developing the portal and linking all theatres in the state to the portal.
It wants to sell the movie tickets the way it sells RTC tickets through a single portal, or the way sale of railway tickets is managed by the central government.
The committee, headed by the principal secretary (home), consists of secretaries from the IT and information departments, commissioner of commercial taxes, AP technology services managing director, joint collectors of Krishna and Guntur districts, and the special secretary of IT department.
The state government earlier issued orders fixing movie ticket prices across the state for non-AC and AC theatres and multiplex screens.
The intervention was to avoid indiscriminate hike by the theatres during the release of big banner films.
The online portal is yet another initiative to keep a check on the price of movie tickets and ensure that entertainment is made available to the people at a reasonable price.
