- Day the Tatkal booking will start on second and not third. About 1.16 million berths and seats are booked a day, out of which Tatkal accounts for 0.17 million seats and berths on 2677 trains. Tatkal booking yielded revenue of Rs. 8470 million during 2011-12. This paper presents the Railway Reservation System which is at Bapat Chourah.
- Irctc Tatkal Magic Autofill is a tool or web service to automate IRCTC Tatkal Ticket Booking. As we all knows the pain behind a waiting list and RAC Ticket. The main reason behind is, The form fill-up time required at irctc website. So why don't fill the form before we actually go into the tatkal ticket battle. It will increase your chances of having a confirmed railway ticket.
Tatkal Booking starts one day in advance (reduced from 2 days) excluding the day of journey e.g. For a journey on 3rd, bookings would open at 10 am on 2nd; however, the day of journey is defined as the day of chart preparation. Accordingly, if the train starts on the 3rd of any month, and reaches the desired boarding station on 4th, the Tatkal.
Indian Railways is working hard, relentlessly by introducing new things to make lives easy for travellers and one such thing is introduction of latest Tatkal ticket booking rules. This is one of the best facilities provided for end moment booking of tickets. As per records, around 13 lakh people book tatkal tickets from IRCTC portal every day and to make things more traveller-friendly IRCTC has modified a few tatkal rules. These steps are being taken to strengthen the IRCTC ticket reservation system.
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Let’s have a look at new Tatkal rules:
1) One can book only six tickets in a month from a single user ID. But 12 tickets can be booked by Aadhaar verified user. And during opening hours i.e. between 8 AM to 10 AM, one person can only book two tickets.
2) Between 8 AM and 12 in the noon, single page/quickbook services will not be available. At a time, single user can only have one log-in session. Captcha will be available at login, along with passenger detail, and payment pages.
3) There’s an additional level of security in the new rules wherein user will be required to answer a question after filling up personal information like user name, mobile number, among others.
4) Agents will only be allowed to book tickets between 8 AM to 8:30 AM, 10 AM to 10.30 AM, and 11 AM to 11:30 AM, while authorised travel agents cannot book tatkal tickets during the first 30 minutes of opening.
5) Now the tatkal online ticket booking is time sensitive and the standard time to fill up passenger details is 25 seconds while minimum input time for Captcha on details and payment pages is 5 seconds only.
6) Users will be given only ten seconds for making the payment, and one-time password (OTP) is mandatory for payments.
7) Online berth reservation for air-conditioned (AC) coaches will start at 10 AM while for sleeper class is 11 AM.
8) If a train does not depart in three hours of its scheduled departure time, then passengers are eligible for complete refund of train fare and tatkal charges, only.
9) If train’s route is diverted and a passenger doesn’t wishes to travel, then he/she can claim a full refund.
10) Full refund can be claimed by a passenger if shifted to any lower class, and he/she doesn't want to travel in the changed class. And if he/she decides to travel in the lower class, he/she will get the difference paid.
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