Railways To Launch Next Generation E-Ticketing System Today

NEW DELHI: Painful experiences of booking train ticket through IRCTC website is going to be over now as railways will launch the next generation e-ticketing system to make the whole process much faster and easier.

Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda will launch the next generation e-ticketing system on August 13 by clicking the new revamped IRCTC ticketing website.

Besides, Gowda will launch a series of IT (Information and Technology) initiatives in the rail sector including e-demand and e-division module of freight services, mobile application for train enquiry and Go India Smart card.

With the launch of next generation e-ticketing system, the ticket booking capacity through the website would enhance to 7200 tickets per minute in the peak hours as against present 2000, said a senior Railway Ministry official.

Ticket booking was sometime getting slow due to overload and traffic congestion. "The website has been revamped at an estimated cost of 180 crore and as a result the next generation e-ticketing system is much faster and it can take traffic load during peak hours," said the official.

Currently there are about 4.5 lakh e-tickets booked on an average through the IRCTC website which can go upto 6 lakh during the peak period.
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