Book Your Train Reservation Ticket While on Move through Mobile Phone

Book Your Train Reservation Ticket While on Move through Mobile Phone No Need to Carry Ticket Print-Out, Mere Display of Message on Mobile is Sufficient during Travel To bring further convenience to the rail users, Indian Railways through Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), a Public Sector Undertaking under the Ministry of Railway, has been offering the service of booking e-ticket over the mobile phone. After initial registration and downloading of suitable software on the mobile handset with internet facility, it will be quite easy for the mobile users to book a reserve ticket through their own mobile. After booking, the passenger will receive a reservation message with full details of the ticket including PNR, Train No, date of journey, class etc. This virtual message would be treated at par with the print-out of the e-ticket which at present is taken out by the passengers and is known as Electronic Reservation Slip (ERS).  Hence, with the virtual message, passengers would not be required to take a print-out of e-ticket to be carried with them. Showing the reservation message of the confirmed ticket on their mobile during travel will be sufficient. The detail procedure of booking through mobile which is also available on the IRCTC website namely www.irctc.co.in,   is as follows:- ·        Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) offers the service of booking electronic ticket (e-ticket) over the mobile to rail users. ·        IRCTC’s Mobile Rail Ticket booking services are based on the webservicesmodel developed by IRCTC in order to enable the users of Mobile Phones to access the web based rail ticket reservation and enquiry services similar to www.irctc.co.in. ·        Application software has to be downloaded on to the mobile handset.  This software is provided by the respective service provider firms viz., NGPAY, PAYMATE and ATOM. The application can be downloaded from IRCTC website and also from various associates of IRCTC viz. NGPAY, ATOM, Paymate.  IRCTC is also likely to launch its mobile application shortly and the software will be downloadable from www.irctc.co.in. ·        These mobile applications are functional on most of the GPRS/Browser based mobile phones, from basic model to high end ones. ·        Internet is required on mobile phones to book tickets through mobile. ·        The Passenger has to register at the time of first transaction and thereafter book the ticket using his ID and password. ·        Whenever a passenger books a reserved ticket through Mobile phone, he will receive a message with full details of the ticket including PNR, Train No., date of journey, class, etc.  This virtual message would be treated at par with the print-out of the e-ticket which at present is taken out by the passengers and is known as Electronic Reservation Slip (ERS).  Hence, with this virtual message, passengers would not be required to have a printer with them to take a print-out of e-ticket to be carried with them. ·        The customer is charged ticket fare, IRCTC service charge and Agent service charge (Rs.10/- & Rs.20/- as per class of tickets) and applicable payment gateway charges. ·        The Service Charge is similar to e-tickets Rs.10/- for SL class and Rs.20/- for other higher class. ·        All the rules applicable to e-tickets are also applicable to the reserved tickets booked through Mobile phones except that in this case, the passenger can also show the virtual message received on mobile instead of carrying ERS. ·        More than a thousand users presently are availing this facility everyday. ASK/HK/LK/T R (Release ID :79323) Source : PIB dtd 03/01/2012

Railways to Accept “Aadhaar” as Additional Identity Proof for E-Ticketing & Tatkal Scheme

As “Aadhaar” is covered under the heading ‘Photo Identity Card Issued by Central/State Government’, the Ministry of Railways has decided to specifically incorporate and indicate “Aadhaar” as one of the proofs of identity acceptable for undertaking journey on e-tickets as well as under Tatkal scheme. Hence, the number of proofs of identity to be accepted for undertaking journey on e-tickets as well as under Tatkal scheme will now become 9 (nine) as mentioned below:

(i) Voter Photo Identity Card issued by Election Commission of India. 
(ii) Passport
(iii) PAN Card issued by Income Tax Department
(iv) Driving License issued by RTO
(v) Photo Identity Card issued by Central/State Government
(vi) Student Identity Card with photograph issued by recognized School/college for their students. 
(vii) Nationalized Bank Passbook with photograph 
(viii) Credit Cards issued by Banks with laminated photograph and
(ix) Unique Identification Card “Aadhaar” 


Source : PIB dtd 19/12/2011

Railways take Steps to Prevent Misuse of Tatkal Scheme

Ministry of Railways

Railways take Steps to Prevent Misuse of Tatkal Scheme


With a view to reduce the scope for misuse of Tatkal scheme, the following steps have been taken:-

i)    Access to Tatkal booking on all days and normal booking on the opening g day of reservation through e-tickets by the Travel Agents/Web-service agents/Web Agents of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has been disabled between 0800 a.m. and 09.00 a.m. 


ii)    It has been made mandatory to produce any one of the prescribed identity cards (in original) during the journey by any one of the passengers booked on a Tatkal ticket. 



iii)    Instructions have also been issued that Senior Divisional Commercial Managers/Divisional Commercial Managers should conduct regular inspections of Reservation offices and also personally inspect passenger Reservation System (PRS) offices during the opening hours and take immediate steps to check the routing activities. 


In addition, the following two safeguards already exist in the Tatkal Scheme:- 
•    Tatkal Refund Rules are stringent to reduce chances of its misuse
. •    Change of name facility is not available under the Scheme. 
This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri Bharatsinh Solanki in written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today. 

Source: PIB

Free Monthly Season Ticket for Students

The facility of Free Monthly Season Ticket (MST) is available for boy and girl students, for travel n 2nd class of all passenger/local trains between stations serving places of their residence and school/college/Madrasa. In case of boys, this facility is available upto class 12th while in case of girls, it is available upto the level of Graduation which also includes professional/vocational courses such as B. Tech., B.Sc. (Engineering), M.B.B.S. etc.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri K. H. Muniyappa in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

Courtesy : http://tkbsen.blogspot.com/

Entitlement of Privilege Pass in Railway

After lots of hiccups, All India Railwaymen Federation’s proposal to give 2 AC pass to Grade Pay Rs. 4200 & above, 3 AC Pass to Grade Pay Rs. 2800 & also 3 AC pass to staff with GP 1900, 2000 & 2400 travelling on duty, has finally been accepted by Railway Board. After kind approval of MR orders are likely to be issued shortly. Those who are already getting First Class Pass will continue to get it. General Secretary/AIRF has thanked all Railwaymen for keeping the patience & also extends greetings to Hon’ble MR & Board on resolving the Pass issue.

Source : http://www.airfindia.com/