Revamped IRCTC site with ‘one click’ theme from today

Revamped IRCTC site with ‘one click’ theme from today

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: 01.01.2021

The experience of booking train tickets through IRCTC website and IRCTC Rail Connect Mobile App will change from Friday. The concept of “one click” forms the theme of the revamped IRCTC website, with several details such as availability of trains, booking of meals, retiring room, hotels and last transaction now displayed at the click of a mouse.

Regular or favorite journeys can be booked easily through the autofill feature. In the new website, the availability for all classes will be displayed along with respective fares for all trains and probability of confirmation will also be displayed.

In the earlier version, each train seat availability and fares could be seen only after clicking on that train individually and the probability of confirmation had to be checked for each waitlist status separately.

In the website, availability for other dates can be toggled on the page itself. On average 40 lakh people logged into the IRCTC website per day before the pandemic and it has even booked 26,000 tickets in a minute, which is a record.

Currently, this e-ticketing website has more than six crore active users and more than eight lakh tickets are purchased daily. Around 83% of the total reserved railway tickets are booked through this online system.

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