Pay using MobiKwik for Tatkal Ticket on IRCTC

mobile wallet service MobiKwik has started payment with Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) to launch e-cash payments for Tatkal bookings. According to MobiKwik, IRCTC customers can book Tatkal train tickets within two seconds using its service.Now IRCTC user can pay using  virtual wallet. earlier mobile wallet for Tatkal ticket was not allowed.Using this facilitu no dobut this will be faster and easie...

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Major Changes in Indian Railways rules from 1 July 2016

Major changes in Indian Railways rules 1) From July 1, passengers will get refund amount of 50 percent on cancellation of tatkal tickets. 2)  From July 1, tatkal window for AC coach will be open between 10 am and 11 am while for sleeper coach it will be open from 11 am to 12 pm. 3) No Waiting list ticket  will be issued from IRCTC. Suvidha trains will run if there is waiting list. Tickets shall be issued only for confirmed and RAC passengers in suvidha Trains. There shall be no provision for waiting list in the train.There will be...

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No service charge on using Credit /Debit card forTicket booking at PRS counter

From 1 June 2016 there will not be charged extra for using credit or debit card for booking train ticket at the Passenger Reservation System (PRS) counters as the Indian Railways Earlier to book the ticket using Credit /Debit card passenger has to  with Rs 30 service charge.at PRS counter However, the service charge for booking tickets online through IRCTC website will remain unaffecte...

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Easy Ticket Cancellation Method using 139

From Today  railway passengers can cancel their confirmed train tickets( Paper Ticket/i-ticket) by just dialing 139. The passenger has to dial 139 for cancelling it with relvant PNR number and the sender will get a one-time password (OTP). Passenger has to reach the Passenger Reservation System (PRS) counter and reveal the OTP to claim refund.There is another option also that is  using IRCTC website  and both the facilities...

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Change in Boarding Station online for e-ticket via IRCTC

If you book your ticket from  IRCTC  website i. e e-ticket there IRCTC has given  a special gift for those who come to book . Railway have given them the facility that they can change their Boarding station.Now you can go online and book tickets after that you can change your boarding the station c . Prior to this, people had to go to the ticket counter and then they have to do application for changing Boarding station , but now it will not like this. For E-ticket Passenger has to visit counter from where to start the journey had...

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New rules for IRCTC for Ticket booking and more : From 1st Feb and 1st March

From 1st February 2016 Railway has planned to have new rule for Ticket mobbking Here are some of it major point: 1) From a single user id of IRCTC ,a Peson can book only 2 ticket between 8 to 10 AM 2) From a single user ID of IRCTC ,a person can book only 2 ticket for Tatkal between 10 AM to 12        PM 3) From a single ID,a user can booking only 6 ticket in a calendar month. 4) Agent login on IRCTC will be possible only from 8:30 AM .that is 30 minutes late from normal booking. 5) No 8  AM to 12 PM  there will...

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First Braille-embedded train for reserved class

The bogies of the Train no. 16229 / 16230 Mysore – Varanasi Express which leaves Mysore for Varanasi on Tuesdays and Thursdays, has been provided with metallic Braille signages inside the coaches indicating the location of alarm pull chains, toilets, emergency windows and berth numbers for the convince of the Blind peoples. Railways has  plan to implement this feature for other long distance trains. Currently lots of Blind peoples can’t able to find their reservation seats properly and their needy places available on the train. Also by implementing...

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Enjoy Free Wi-Fi service at Mumbai Central Railway Station

Free high-speed public Wi-Fi service is now live at Mumbai Central station.this service is implement by RailTel and Google’s . Google CEO Sundar Pichai had announced that Mumbai Central will be the first station to get Wi-Fi under the scheme during his India visit in December Mumbai Centeral became first railway station in India to have WiFi service by Google Google plans to roll out the service to 100 railway stations in India by end of 2016...

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Tatkal Charge Revised from 24 Dec 2015

From 24 Dec 2015 railways ministry has revived the tatkal charge. Here is charges mention below Class of Travel Minimum Tatkal Charges (in Rs.) Maximum Tatkal Charges  (in Rs.) Minimum Distance for charge(in Km) Reserve Second sitting (2S) 10.00 15.00 100 Sleeper 100.00 200.00 500 AC Chair Car 125.00 225.00 250 AC 3 Tier 300.00 400.00 500 AC 2 Tier 400.00 500.00 500 Executive 400.00 500.00 250 The above...

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