New Rule for Waiting Ticket Holders by Indian Railways

The Indian Railways continuously makes changes to enhance travel comfort and convenience. Recently, social media buzzed with viral pictures and videos showing overcrowding in reservation coaches due to passengers holding waiting list tickets. In response, the railway authorities have introduced new rules for waiting list tickets. According to these new rules, only passengers with confirmed reservations can travel in reservation coaches.

Waiting Tickets Restrictions

Indian Railways has revised its rules regarding waiting list tickets. From now on, whether booked online through IRCTC or at ticket counters, passengers with waiting list tickets are not allowed to travel in reservation or AC coaches. This means that even if a waiting ticket is purchased from the counter, passengers cannot occupy seats in reserved coaches.

Online Waiting List Restrictions

According to railway rules, if you book a waiting list ticket online via IRCTC, you won’t be permitted to travel in the reserved coach. If your ticket doesn’t get confirmed, your money will be refunded automatically. Previously, passengers with waiting list tickets from counters often traveled in reservation coaches, but this practice is no longer allowed. Passengers with waiting list tickets bought at railway counters can only travel in general coaches, with no exceptions for reserved or AC coaches.

Strict Penalties

Travelers holding waiting list tickets who are found traveling in reserved coaches may be asked to disembark at the next station and will incur a penalty. Travelers with waiting list tickets are strictly prohibited from entering reservation coaches. If caught, they will face fines up to ₹440. Additionally, those found traveling in a reserved coach with a waiting list ticket will be charged for the journey from the starting station to the destination, along with a minimum penalty of ₹440.

By adhering to these new rules, Indian Railways aims to ensure a more comfortable and organized travel experience for all passengers.

1 जुलाई से* बदल गये रेलवे के ये 10 नियम

*1 जुलाई से* बदल गये रेलवे के ये 10 नियम ....

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*1*) वेटिंग लिस्ट का झंझट खत्म हो जाएगा। रेलवे की ओर से चलाई जाने वाली सुविधा ट्रेनों में यात्रियों को कन्फर्म टिकट की सुविधा दी जाएगी।

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*2*) 1 जुलाई से तत्काल टिकट कैंसिल करने पर 50 फीसदी राशी वापस किए जाएंगे।

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*3*) 1 जुलाई से तत्काल टिकट के नियमों में बदलाव हुआ है। सुबह 10 से 11 बजे तक AC कोच के लिए टिकट बुकिंग होगी जबकि 11 से 12 बजे तक Sleeper कोच की बुकिंग होगी।

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*4*) 1 जुलाई से राजधानी और शताब्दी ट्रेनों में पेपरलेस टिकटिंग की सुविधा शुरु हो रही हैं। इस सुविधा के बाद शताब्दी और राजधानी ट्रेनों में पेपर वाली टिकट नहीं मिलेगी, बल्कि आपके मोबाईल पर टिकट भेजा जाएगा।

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*5*) जल्द ही रेलवे अगल-अगल भाषाओं में टिकटिंग की सुविधा शुरु होने जा रही हैं। अभी तक रेलवे में हिंदी और अंग्रेजी में टिकट मिलती है, लेकिन नई वेबसाइट के बाद अब अलग-अगल भाषाओं में टिकट की बुकिंग की जा सकेगी।

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*6*) रेलवे में टिकट के लिए हमेशा से मारामारी होती रहती है। ऐसे में 1 जुलाई से शताब्दी और राजधानी ट्रेनों में कोचों की संख्या बढ़ाई जाएगी।

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*7*) भीड़-भाड़ के दिनों में रेलगाड़ी में बेहतर सुविधा देने के लिए वैकल्पित रेलगाड़ी समायोजन प्रणाली, सुविधा ट्रेन शुरु करने और महत्वपूर्ण ट्रेनों की डुप्लीकेट गाड़ी चलाने की योजना है।

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*8*) रेल मंत्रालय ने 1 जुलाई से राजधानी, शताब्दी, दुरंतो और मेल-एक्सप्रेस ट्रेनों के तर्ज पर सुविधा ट्रेन चलाई जाएगी।

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*9*) 1 जुलाई से रेलवे प्रीमियम ट्रेनों को पूरी तरह से बंद करने जा रहा है।

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*10*) सुविधा ट्रेनों में टिकट वापसी पर 50 फीसदी किराए की वापसी होगी। इसके अलावा AC-2 पर 100/- रुपए, AC-3 पर 90/- रुपए, Sleeper पर 60/- रुपए प्रति यात्री कटेंगे।

जन हित में जारी

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� *ट्रेन में बेफिक्र होकर सोएं*, डेस्टिनेशन स्टेशन आने पर जगा देगा रेलवे....

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आपको 139 पर फोन कर वेकअप कॉल-डेस्टिनेशन अलर्ट सुविधा अपने पीएनआर पर एक्टिवेट करवाना होगी l

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ट्रेन में रात के समय सफर करने वाले यात्रियों को डेस्टिनेशन स्टेशन आने से पहले रेलवे ने वेकअप कॉल-डेस्टिनेशन अलर्ट सुविधा शुरू कर दी है। 

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➡ *क्या है डेस्टिनेशन अलर्ट*

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> इस सुविधा को *डेस्टिनेशन अलर्ट* नाम दिया गया है।

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> सुविधा को एक्टिवेट करने पर डेस्टिनेशन स्टेशन आने से पहले ही मोबाइल पर अलार्म बजेगा।

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> सुविधा को एक्टिवेट करने के लिए 

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*अलर्ट* टाइप करने के बाद

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 *पी एन आर नंबर* टाइप करना होगा 

और 139 पर सेंड करना होगा।

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> 139 पर *कॉल करना होगा*।  

कॉल करने के बाद भाषा चुने और फिर 7 डायल करें। 

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*7 डायल करने के बाद पी एन आर नंबर डायल करना होगा*। इसके बाद यह सेवा एक्टिवेट हो जाएगी

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> इस सुविधा को *वेक-अप कॉल* नाम दिया गया है।

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➡ रिसीव होने तक बजेगी मोबाइल की घंटी

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🔺इस सेवा को एक्टिवेट करने पर स्टेशन आने से पहले मोबाइल की घंटी बजेगी। यह घंटी तब-तक बजती रहेगी, जब तक आप फोन रिसीव नहीं करेंगे। फोन रिसीव होने पर यात्री को सूचित किया जाएगा कि स्टेशन आने वाला है। 

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🙏🏻 *कृपया यह संदेश सभी को भेज दें।*🌺

IRCTC Trolled

IRCTC one of the giant e-commerce of Asia is making millions or can say billions of Rupees may be because of its high demand in India (The second most populated Country of World till now). Despite being a slow and ir-responsive website its is used daily by lakhs of Indians because they have no other option other than travelling by trains. Bad roads and lack of security are main reasons. Also, the railway provides less facility and less seats to travel.

Railway sector has a great share of showing bad side of India to tourist. In spite of the fact that they charge more than normal for tickets their facilities are worst. Railway sector makes crores of profit yearly but never thinks to improve its infrastructure, introducing new and latest technology trains and of course the condition of stations.

Though the site has earned the medal of top e-commerce site but it is still too bad at providing online facilities even. 60% to 80% of public using IRCTC to book ticket online get errors like service unavailable, multiple login, session timeout, and sometimes payment gets done but ticket does not. This enables the thugs and agents to leech innocent passengers' money. Middlemen on the railway stations and near ticket booking widows are a common site. Time and again it has been brought to the notice of authorities that such people should be blocked access to railway stations and discouraged by imposing heavy penalties on them if found indulging in such activities. But authorities are yet to come to the terms and accept their fault.

Agents IRCTC Login Booking Trick

IRCTC Login

With lots of agents and IRCTC Login problems people usually are unable to book tatkal tickets but agents who are not allowed to book tickets at the tatkal starting time get the tickets for you. Have you ever thought how do they do it? How they manage to book tickets? You will obviously say that its their daily work and they know the best and also have software which let them book fast. Well, I would agree with only one of your point that is their daily work but not the software. It is true that once a software worked and let some agents who paid for the software to book tatkal tickets before tatkal time but I R C T C has overcome this error and software trick. That software costs around Rs.70,000/- according to some newspaper I read.

Tricks that Agents do with IRCTC Login Fast and Book Tatkal Tickets 

First you must know what they use! They use:

• Mozilla Firefox - it is web browser like internet explorer and can be downloaded from here.
  
• Multiple IRCTC accounts / IDs, though this is illegal but they take the risk. I would not suggest you go for multiple accounts though because unlike agents you are concerned about your own ticket or your relatives and friends and your genuine account is sufficient for this purpose.
• Two or three internet connections. Usually they have one broadband and one or two Net Setter (eg. reliance net or tata docomo dongle photon). For you a good broadband connection will be enough to book a ticket under tatkal scheme.
• Auto form Fill Scripts (very important factor in booking a tatkall ticket nowadays). You can refer to my post which is in hindi for this purpose.
• Sometimes using VPN - Virtual Private Network when very slow speed

So the next point is what is the procedure or steps needed to follow?

The steps are too easy and even you can do it easily if followed correctly.

I have written the steps that you needs to follow for tatkal booking. Follow the navigation on the right side of the page to read it. तत्काल टिकट कैसे बुक करें?

IRCTC Website of Indian Railways Experiences Low Bandwidth.

IRCTC website is getting slower day by day. It hangs, refuses to proceed and gives one liners like "service unavailable". The railway minister himself has accepted this in Rajya Sabha on December 14th 2012.

News:

Railway Minister P.K. Bansal has admitted in Rajya Sabha that on many instances the website, www.irctc.co.in for booking online railway tickets in India was experiencing slowdowns and server errors. Online reservation is being done through the website of the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (I R C T C), a subsidiary of Indian Railways. Currently the organization has 58 iridium servers and all other technical infrastructure to cater to the needs of the public, however it fails to withstand the heavy load during peak hours in the morning and during holidays.

For availing online reservation one needs to register with the website and provide the personal details like name, address, valid mobile number, valid email and other contact information. Upon registration a welcome mail with username and password and an activation link to access the website will be sent to the applicant. A mobile verification code is also sent to the registered mobile number and the user needs to provide the code when activating the account. The payment options for booking the tickets include credit cards, debit cards, internet banking and cash cards. The passenger can look the PNR status at frequent intervals after booking the ticket. The amount paid for any wait listed ticket will be refunded back in case reservation is not available.

The website provides other information like tour packages, hotels, flights and offer tailor made tour packages to both Indians and foreigners. According to a recent Alexa review on the website, an average user spends around 10 minutes browsing the website and most of the visitors were Asians accessing the website either from home or from their workplace.

Although hundreds of passengers use the website for online booking, complaints regarding its slow speed and many other booking and cancellation issues are on rise day by day. It is argued that the authorities intentionally do not provide extra bandwidth to the website to help the outside agents. According to railways, a sudden surge in online traffic especially during the booking of Tatkal ticket creates trouble to the website.

New IRCTC System Gives Relief to Reservation Seekers

Steps taken by irctc to correct the drawbacks of tatkal misuse has started bearing fruits. A recent report in the Hindu confirms this:

The changes in the reservation scheme, implemented from this past Tuesday, have led to improvements in the performance of the Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) website and in the number of bookings.

Basheer Ahmad, who got a tatkal ticket after standing in queue for around an hour or so at Nizamuddin railway station on Wednesday morning, did not have happy memories about getting tatkal tickets either from the railway reservation counter or though the IRCTC website. There were occasions when he spent the night outside the railway station just to be the first in queue, which got moving at 8 a.m.

“I came here at 9 a.m. today because I wanted to see if the new timing had made any changes in the way a common man like me gets reservation done. To my surprise, I got the reservation!” said Ahmad, a resident of Bihar.

Delhi University student Asutosh Kumar has access to Internet at home but preferred coming to the reservation counter because it is “almost impossible” to get a tatkal reservation online.

Talking about the “horrible” experience with the IRCTC website, Kumar said: “As per my experience, there is no point in trying to get a reservation through the IRCTC website. I have not yet tried booking tickets online after the changes made by IRCTC. I just hope it works because then I will not need to come to the reservation counter.”

Since Tuesday, no authorised agents, including agents of the IRCTC and others, were allowed to book tatkal tickets from 10 a.m. to 12 noon from the counters as well as the Internet.

IRCTC Joint General Manager (Public Relations) Pradip Kundu said IRCTC has been getting good feedback. The number of hits on the website site at 10 a.m., the time the tatkal tickets are open for reservation, have decreased almost by half, leading to smooth functioning of the website.

“Previously there used to be more than eight lakh hits when the counters opened for general and tatkal tickets. Since Tuesday, there have been around 4.5 lakh hits on the IRCTC site at 10 a.m. With a fixed number of berths available under the scheme, the extremely high number of hits used to play spoilsport for the common man. Since the last few days, IRCTC has been able to increase the number of reservation thanks to the series of measures it took to dilute the monopoly of touts and agents over reservation,” said Mr. Kundu.

“The changes brought about by IRCTC include increasing the bandwidth of the website from 344 mbps to 450 mbps, besides limiting reservation to two tickets per IP address. We have deleted around 44,000 multiple user IDs — a trick adopted by reservation agents and touts,” he added.