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Saturday, 10 September 2016

07:39

Tatkal bookings jump on IRCTC Lite site

Tatkal bookings jump on IRCTC Lite site

Lucknow (LKO): Booking an e-ticket during rush tatkal hours can be easier with IRCTC Lite, a new facility launched by the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC).

To improve service and to reduce traffic and unnecessary hits during peak hours, IRCTC has launched IRCTC Lite during tatkal period which is from 10am to 12 noon. The new service is effective from 9:30am.

To make service faster, all the links, images, ads, services, features which are not helping or not required at the time of premium tatkal ticket booking have been removed from the home page.

“We launched it a month back and it is successful,” said Jt.GM-PR/IRCTC, Pradip Kundu.

In the first hour of Tatkal booking (10am to 11am) the earlier average booking before the introduction of the “IRCTC Lite” was around 48,000, which has now jumped to more than 58,000.

The earlier two hourly (10am to 12 noon) Tatkal booking average was around 83,000, which has now become more than 92,000 with the IRCTC Lite.

Agent login is not available during Tatkal period. For Agent cancellation a separate link is given on home page.

In the Services section the “Plan My Travel” is made more efficient and faster in fetching of “From” and “To” stations for Auto Complete Feature.

In “My Transactions” section “Cancelled history”, “TDR History” and “Refund Status of Cancelled Tickets” are not available and thus reduce the unnecessary hits to the site. Although the other facilities in this section like Booked History, Print E- Ticket, Cancel E-ticket / Refund, Refund Status of Failed Transactions are made available as before.

Similarly, in the User Profile the “Update profile”, “Master list of passenger”, “Passenger travel list” and in the General section the “Terms and Conditions”, “TDR procedure” are removed to make the site faster and easily accessible.

Source:Rail News

Wednesday, 17 June 2015

09:54

Booking for AC starts at 10 a.m., sleeper class at 11 a.m.- New Tatkal Booking in effect

New Tatkal norms come into effect

Booking for AC starts at 10 a.m., sleeper class at 11 a.m.

The new timings for booking Tatkal tickets introduced by the Railways came into effect on Monday.

The timings for booking tickets in air-conditioned coaches through Tatkal quota commences at 10 a.m. on the day before the journey. The tickets in sleeper class coaches through Tatkal quota can be booked only from 11 a.m. on the day before the journey.

Along with the revised timings, all types of ticketing agents have been barred by the Railways from booking reservation tickets during the first 30 minutes of opening of the booking counters, that is from 8 a.m. to 8.30 a.m. This is to ensure the needy and the general public get the benefits of the Tatkal quota.

New servers

Meanwhile, the IRCTC has added two high-capacity servers to double peak-time efficiency for issuing Tatkal tickets. With this the booking capacity through the IRCTC website has gone up to over 14,000 tickets per minute from the existing 7,200.

Tatkal reservations on all trains in the railway network of the country come to roughly 4,00,000 tickets (around 2.5 lakh PNRs).

Around 54 per cent train tickets in the country are booked through the IRCTC website.

The average daily sale of tickets through the portal is 5.5 lakh to 6 lakh. With two more servers, the IRCTC has 17 servers while the existing 1.4 GB bandwidth has increased by 25 per cent.

High-capacity servers to double efficiency

14,000 tickets can be booked per minute

Monday, 15 June 2015

18:36

Tatkal Ticket ReservationTime Changed -15.06.2015

Tatkal Ticket Reservation Time Changed -15.06.2015

The Ministry of Railways has changed the timings for the booking of Tatkal tickets in AC and non-AC classes, starting today, in order to reduce the load on the ticketing website and booking windows. The new timing for booking tickets for AC classes is 10 am onwards on the previous day of journey from train originating station, while the timing for non-AC classes starts at 11 am. Railways will soon launch its 'Tatkal Special' train service, travelling on which will be dearer than on normal trains.

Source :TOI.