IRCTC Indian Railways

Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation handles the catering, online ticketing and tourism operations of Indian Railways. Apart from these services, IRCTC offers tatkal booking of tickets. Under the tatkal booking passengers can book their tickets one day prior to the departure of the train from the source railway station. The tatkal booking starts daily at 10:00AM.

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Irctc website updates:

IRCTC made the site lite weight to allow the booking of tickets faster. In this lite weight site, IRCTC disabled registration, online shopping and advertisements during the tatkal hours.

IRCTC next generation website: The next generation website is very fast. Now irctc can handle booking of upto 10000 tickets per minute.

Coach and Berth selecting: IRCTC is going to add a new feature to the site where a passenger can choose the coach and berth of this choice at the time of booking the ticket. This feature will be launched this year.