Try booking a ticket on the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) website and you'll find yourself taking an unwanted lesson in frustration.
The online ticketing is supposed to open at 5.30 AM onwards, Indian Standard Time, but the server always goes down and starts running from 8 AM instead. What seems to be even more dubious here is between 8AM to 8:30 AM, hardly anyone can book a confirmed ticket as the server is unimaginably slow. After 8:30 AM, the server runs smoothly but by then, the tickets all get booked up.
Finally, some action has been taken against alleged malpractices of Indian Railway's bookings, though it seems it may not be enough to ensure a proper service to the common Indian.
Considering several complaints over the years, Indian Railways has deactivated IDs of 1.4 million users, fearing booking malpractice. Rail tickets are always high demand but they're hardly available because of corporate bookings and a nexus between agents and fringe employees.
Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC) has now barred authorised agents from booking e-tickets.
IRCTC has licensed about 100 principal agents in India. In turn, it appointed sub agents working as authorised ticket agents in different parts of the country taking a non-refundable deposit.
The IRCTC website is the sole online ticketing platform of Indian railways, apart from a couple of private players – Makemytrip.com and Yaatra.com. But, there's hardly any difference between IRCTC booking and these guys as the results always appear to be the same – Confirmed tickets not available.
IRCTC was unavailable for comment.
Not going so good for IRCTC
While announcing the railway budget, Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee also launched a portal for e-ticketing from the Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS). The new website may take away half of IRCTC's business but it will remain to be seen whether or not CRIS can come up with an answer and not something worse than IRCTC.
Last year, a catering contract was taken away from the IRCTC, but the biggest blow is the ticketing website.
Rakesh Tandon, managing director at the IRCTC, has said: "This year will be a tough year.
"Catering and e-ticketing have been our main source of income. With a catering business worth Rs 300 crore gone, we are already feeling the pinch. Now, the new portal will cut our share in ticketing too."
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parsnal id ko band karo
agent log parsnal id ticket nikal rahe hai,
din ke 15 se 20 ticket alag alag id banakar ticket nikal rahe hai.
karpya karke irctc vale ko bolo ki aapka aaise niyam hai kya .
isse aacha irctc bilkul hi band kar do.
taki ham station jakar ticket layege to hamare ko ticket to mil payega .
agent log 10 se 15 waiting ticket nikal kar bolte ham conform karva deve aapko 300 se 400 rupeye conform karane ka lagega .
aur aaise tarike se vo bahut logo ko bevkup bana kar paisa vasul karte hai.
karpya ye susna sabhi ko padh kar sabhi membero ko sangthanbanakar rail mantralay mamta banarji tak pahuchani hai.
Our request donot expose media in IRCTC agents.
Your probe regarding irctc agent booking tatkal ticket, as I am a irctc sub agent and want to know the following if you can reply or prob the answer. 1- the irctc and main agents charged a huge amount on the name of to became life time irctc agent . What is about that money ?
2. Even by selling few ticket after 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. any how we earn some money but we are jobless.
3.As every body know if irctc site is getting carsh between 8am to 9 am how we can book ticket?
4.And if some body doing wrong Those should be punished or for few culprit irctc is punishing 2 lac sub agents.
Remember God is great I belive in God, Almighty British gone in hell and this deaf and dumb government will also go as well as you for making sensational news on bread of us.
I am a common customer who has frequently used the IRCTC website for booking tickets for my family. I have also faced the problems while booking tatkal tickets. But ever since the Star News on IRCTC, I fail to even log in till 12:30 in the afternoon. Only after that I am able to log in but not able to book tickets. It always gives errors saying tunnel connection failed or communication failed.
Looks like things are going from bad to worse. Whats up IRCTC and its management and above all the Railways????
This government is seriously screwed up!!!
1). TICKET CLERK
2). RPF
3). And some drunk people who stand in row for whole night to make them number one in row
One of agent told me that he average spend money for one full ticket means 6*1 =6 passenger is
RPF=200 rs
BOOKING CLERK=50*6=300rs
BEVDA(drunk)PERSON=200rs
200+300+200=700 RS
so according to him he spend 110 for each passenger
every one is corrupt the whole system is F**k up
so please don't blame to IRCTC only for this scam
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bahut achha kam kiye aapne garibo ko lutne ki aap ko pata aaj is beroj gari ke samy me log ek chhota sa investment karke travel ka bussnes kar rahe the or apna ghar chala rahe the uska to aapne roji roti chhin liya or agent ticket book karta tha to irctc ko charjis de rahe the jisme irctc co income thi lekin aaj agent login band karne se kala bajari jyda hogi or dalalo incom badh gaya irctc ka incom kam hogya publik ka lutna suru hogya dalal logo direct conter se ticket book kara ke 300 se 1000 rs tak charjis kar raha hai wah sir aap log garibo ko barwad karne ki achhi sochh hai abhar aap ka sir