pune single contactless smart card would soon be your licence to travel in every mode of transport christened national common mobility card ncmc you will be able to use it for travelling in metro in mumbai delhi or any other city your bus fare and parking fee can be paid through it better still you can use it for small purchases like newspapers punebased centre for development of advanced computing cdac is developing the technology for reading the contactless smart cards the card readers would be installed at all metro stations shop owners can also install them to facilitate purchases using the cards the smart cards can be purchased from banks paying rs 1000 or more each time you travel or make a small purchase the amount would get deducted from the card directorgeneral of cdac rajat moona said the card reader technology would be ready in about 18 months the card reader would be a tablet kind of architecture it will read and accumulate fares automatic fare collection the tablets would be attached to wire connections or wifi through which travelling information would reach the servers and subsequently it will reach the payment gateways moona said the smart cards would be based on open loop they would not be restricted to a single metro rail network or one city they can be used in all cites moona said while encouraging the national common mobility card a token system would be in place for passengers not travelling regularly the card readers would be the interface for the tokens they can be circulated over and over again the fares will be calculated on the basis of a passengers entry into a metro station and the exit the travel cost would be deducted at the exit point most metros would have a fixed value of fare so the fixed fare would be charged moona said for buses a gps system would be used to calculate the fare it would be determined by the boarding and disembarking point of passengers using smart cards the same card can be used for paying parking fee provided the vendor has the smart card reader it can be used for local suburban rail travel as well the union ministry of urban development has taken up the national common mobility card project it had appointed a committee headed by additional secretary durga shanker mishra to prepare a report for standards and specifications of the cards the panel with members of cdac national payment corporation of india delhi bangalore and kochi metro rail corporations and national informatics centre said the cards should be developed at the regional level first and can be integrated later as national common mobility card collection of toll fee on highways has not been envisaged for the national common mobility card instead electronic toll collection has been proposed it is already functioning at some places an official said electronic toll collection is bank account based the smart card can be used by people who do