Indian Railway Ticket Booking: Tickets will not be able to be booked through IRCTC for about three hours on Tuesday, online services of railways will be closed. Read this report to know more details..
New Delhi: Passengers booking train tickets through IRCTC to travel through Indian Railways may have to face trouble on Tuesday. IRCTC has decided to keep the Reservation System (PRS) closed for more than 2 hours.
How long will services be affected
In fact, through the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC), passengers will not be able to book tickets online from 11:45 pm on Tuesday night to the next two and a half hours i.e. from the night of 26 April till 2:15 am.
According to IRCTC, due to technical reasons, the computerized passenger reservation system operated by Indian Railways will remain closed. Along with this, all the online services of the railways will also be closed.
Booking will be closed for about two and a half hours
According to railway officials, it will be closed for about two and a half hours to upgrade the system. During this, other services related to PRS including reservation, cancellation, reservation chart making, inquiry counter service will also be closed. The special thing is that during these two and a half hours, passengers will not be able to make reservations online. Along with this, no information related to train and parcel will also be available.
According to the railways, the reservation charts for trains after 12 o’clock on Tuesday night will be prepared ahead of time. Ticket booking and other services will be affected for about three hours.
Although most people book tickets before traveling in trains through computerized passenger reservation system centers operated by Indian Railways, in this age of technology, more and more people make reservation of tickets online by visiting IRCTC website sitting at home to save time. .
Through Passenger Reservation System, passengers can buy general or unreserved tickets from computerized unreserved ticketing system centres. Apart from this, train tickets can also be booked from the automatic ticket vending machines installed at the stations.
In such a situation, when the computerized passenger reservation system operated by the Indian Railways is kept closed for improvement or other work, then people face problems. However, according to the railways, this work is done at a time when the passengers face the least problem.