Railway passengers alert! IRCTC announces new ticket booking changes
The move is also aimed at cutting down the touts from whom a few railway passengers buy their train.
Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), the ticketing arm of Indian Railways has made a little change in the rules for booking train tickets. Now, while booking tickets, passengers will have to provide their own mobile number as their contact details. Indian Railways has taken this step in view of the increasing number of ticket touts and fake tickets surrounding the railways.
The move is additionally pointed toward chopping down the promotes from whom a few railroad travelers purchase their train. The IRCTCnew rule on giving traveler’s own contact number will be a deterrent for promotes.
Indian Railways has seen that on the grounds that the tickets don’t have the travelers numbers (the ones being purchased from promotes or IRCTC record of others) their number doesn’t get enlisted in the Passenger Reservation System (PRS) framework because of which travelers regularly don’t get SMS notices on their cell phones. The data with respect to abrogation of train or modification in a train’s timetable is additionally missed by the travelers in the notice.
Elsewhere in the world, Rail travelers can now effectively observe continuous PNR status just as other data identified with movement through WhatsApp. For this, the travelers should spare a number in their portable. Here is the finished cycle.
1. Save the phone number 9881193322 in your smartphone
2. Go to WhatsApp and open the chat box number 9881193322
3. Now you will have to message the PNR number in the chat box
4. You Will have to reply to the information asked for verification
5. Once you complete the above process, you will get updates related to your journey continuously on WhatsApp
In November this year, the IRCTC has declared another standard for booking tickets. As indicated by this new principle, a subsequent reservation diagram will be readied 30 minutes before the planned flight of trains.
Prior, during the pandemic time frame, the diagram was being readied two hours in front of the training flight for the comfort of the travelers. Prior to pandemic occasions, just the first outline used to be readied, four hours ahead of time of the flight. The leftover seats could be reserved by travelers on the web or by visiting traveler reservation framework (PRS) counters. Individuals were given seats on the early bird gets the worm premise.
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