Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday informed that train ticket bookings at railway station countries will restart in the next 2-3 days for which they are developing a protocol. He said that railways will also announce resumption of services of some more trains.
Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said that booking of train tickets will resume at around 1.7 lakh common service centres from tomorrow across the country. Bookings will also resume at counters of different stations in the next 2-3 days. We are developing a protocol in this regard.
IRCTC has started taking the destination address of all passengers who are booking tickets with effect from May 13 (Wednesday). Railways has said that this new addition of passengers information while booking tickets is being done in order to help it for contact tracing.
Indian Railways on Wednesday announced to cancel all train ticket bookings made earlier for journeys till June 30.
The Indian Railways has resumed the booking of tickets. The resumption of the train services comes as India enters the last week of the 54-day coronavirus lockdown and as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to hold a video conference with chief ministers, which is likely to focus on a strategy for a phased exit from the shutdown.
Congress said its state units will bear the cost of rail travel of needy migrant workers and labourers
More than 60 percent of trains tickets have been canceled in March so far due to the coronavirus outbreak, Railway officials informed a Parliamentary panel on Wednesday.
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday that he is considering barring private vendors and agents from booking train tickets for passengers, noting they are no longer needed when tickets can be booked by anyone on a mobile.
The Union government is considering barring private vendors and agents from booking train tickets for passengers, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal told Lok Sabha on Friday.
To cater festival rush, the Central Railway has announced 26 additional trains ahead of Holi. The announcement of Holi Special trains 2020 will decrease the chances of getting waiting list tickets and passengers might get a chance to get confirmed train tickets even if they plan to train book tickets now.
Railways bear 47 per cent cost, collecting the remaining 57 per cent from the passengers. It earns around Rs 56,000 crore by selling tickets and now is aiming to make it's earning about Rs 56,000 crore in 2019-20 with the 'give it up' scheme.
Indian Railways will soon bring you the option to give up subsidy while booking a train ticket. IRCTC will bring required change in the train ticket booking system. Railways hope to increase its earnings with this move.
IRCTC provides the tatkal ticket booking facility on payment of premium charges. The bookings are made on first-come-first-serve basis.
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Even though 65 % of rail passengers prefer digital payments while buying a ticket, 50 % of the train tickets are still bought in cash.
The government has waived service charges on train tickets booked through the IRCTC website, effectively making online tickets cheaper.
In view of the huge rush witnessed at ticket counters following the government’s decision to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes, the Railways has stopped giving refunds against the cancellation of tickets in
In a move furthering it's aim to create an Aadhaar card-based ecosystem in the country, the Indian Railways has adapted a new measure that would force the commuters to get one. As per a new
IRCTC has joined hands with Atom, an online payment gateway, to facilitate foreign travellers to use international credit and debit cards for purchasing train tickets.
New Delhi: Over 100 passengers have availed the benefit of IRCTC's offer of flight tickets against waitlisted train ticket since the launch of this scheme.The flight tickets were offered by IRCTC was of budget carrier
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