Railways to prepare reservation charts 8 hours prior to train departure
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has directed the Railway Board to initiate the implementation of preparing reservation charts eight hours prior to train departure in a phased manner. This move will reduce uncertainties for passengers with waitlist tickets.
It will also provide more time to make alternative arrangements in case the wait list is not confirmed. For trains departing before 2:00 PM in the afternoon, the chart should be prepared the previous day at 9:00 PM itself. Mr. Vaishnaw emphasized that the ticketing system should be smart, transparent, accessible, and efficient.
Railways is undertaking a series of steps to make ticket booking easier. The new upgraded Modern Passenger Reservation System is designed to handle ten times the current load. The Railways Ministry said, the new Reservation System is capable of generating over one lakh 50 thousand rail tickets per minute, which is about five times the current capacity of 32 thousand tickets.
The Ministry said, the new Passenger Reservation System will be ready by the end of this year. The ticket enquiry capacity will also jump ten times, from four lakh in a minute time to over 40 lakh enquiries every minute.
Indian Railways will allow only authenticated users to book Tatkal tickets on IRCTC website and mobile app beginning 1st of next month. The OTP-based authentication will be done for Tatkal bookings from the end of July this year.
The Railways Minister has instructed officials to broadbase the authentication mechanism for Tatkal bookings. Mr Vaishnaw said, the authentication should be done using Aadhaar or any other verifiable Government ID available in the user’s DigiLocker account.
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