Fwd: New train Ticketing System by INDIAN Railways

[Suzuki K P]

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From: Joseph Kaliyadan <jokal...@gmail.com>
Date: 2011/7/14
Subject: New train Ticketing System by INDIAN Railways
To: Sreejith Nair <sree...@gmail.com>, Ranjith P Padmanabhan <ranj...@comviva.com>, Suzuki - സുസുകി കെ പി <suzuki.kp@gmail.com>

The new Reservation system went live from 07-July-2011 and the services charges are 50% lesser than that of IRCTC, but as its newly launched its quite slow and is crashing quite often, I think still we might have to rely on IRCTC to book tatkal, (which will also co exist with this new reservation system), but both are using a different system to log the data to the Indian Railways main frame computers.

The following is the link:

https://www.indianrailways.gov.in/indianrailway/common/InternetUserSignUp.seam

 

NEW DELHI: Indian Railways is all set to roll out its own e-ticketing service, which will have no room for travel agents and will be reserved for individual users.

"Unlike the e-ticketing service of IRCTC, the new service by Indian Railway will have no role of travel agents and commercial organisations. Only individual users will be allowed to book on the portal," said a Railway official.

Travel agents in the IRCTC service have been accused of blocking tickets to sell them at a premium.

Public resentment has also led the railways to bar travel agents from booking tatkal tickets during peak hours on the IRCTC portal.

Under the new railway e-ticketing service, individual customers would need to register themselves for the first time for availing the services. The registration will be free of charge.

A maximum of eight transaction per user ID per month will be allowed in the beginning, the official said, adding, the service charges levied will be Rs five per ticket for sleeper class and Rs 10 per ticket for all other classes.

IRCTS charges Rs 10 per ticket for sleeper class and Rs 20 per ticket for all other classes.

The new service will be available on its web portal www.indianrailways.gov.in.

Its launch will be announced after necessary clearance for payment gateway transaction, the official said.

The service will be available from 12.30 am to 11.30 pm.

"The project was sanctioned with a view to consolidate all the services and information on a single window interface for public," the official said.

He said the service will provide passengers another avenue to book tickets, while easing the pressure from the IRCTC website considerably.

On offer is also a service for booking tickets on the mobile platform.

Customers desirous of utilising the facility and having Internet facilities will have to download mobile ticketing application on mobile phones from Indian Railway's website, the official said.

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[Rajith Ravi]

Tried registering new user

got error :D

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[Suzuki K P]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Rajith Ravi <reju....@gmail.com> wrote:

Tried registering new user

got error :D

Its fairly unstable :)

Cheers