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Booked Railways Tickets at IRCTC Site-Get a confirmation SMS.

In this era of Online Travel Booking, a wonderful site is the Indian Railways Online booking site i.e IRCTC.

Many of the Rail Travelers are familiar with this user friendly Site.

The Personal Data in the Individual IRCTC Accounts is of utmost importance, and the users need to be aware of any unauthorized transactions in this account.

Surprised? Than read on:-

01)                      In case of any accident, the Booked Ticket History and the Address mentioned in the Account are of immense use, to authenticate the family members.

02)                     The Booked ticket history provides an insight to the Traveling plan, which can be misused by fraudulent persons.

To avoid misuse of the Individual IRCTC accounts, IRCTC has tied up with Spice Digital, to shoot a SMS once a ticket is booked in the Users Account.

This SMS will consist of the booking details, such as the PNR (Passenger Name Record) number, the date of journey, class of travel, and originating & destination stations.

More details on this new launch by IRCTC and Spice Digital can be viewed @

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2009/11/25/stories/2009112550440500.htm

Highlights in Brief:

01)                      An SMS can contain a maximum of 160 characters. 80 characters will be used for the ticket information and another 80 characters will carry an advertisement.

02)                     The advertisement revenue will be shared between SPICE and IRCTC.

03)                     Spice has set up an SMS gateway server at its own cost at IRCTC’s physical site.

04)                     IRCTC insisted on this to reduce the chances of data theft.

05)                     SMS Alerts will be received only when the mobile phone number is registered at the IRCTC Site.

This is a win-win situation for the Indian Railways, Spice and Rail Travelers.

I am sure Indian Railways/IRCTC has taken an undertaking from Spice Digital

01) Not to misuse the Rail Travelers Phone Numbers for any other purpose, than sending SMS for IRCTC Transactions.

02) Not to access the telephone numbers for any marketing purpose.

Where is the relation to ePayments in this whole new service? Simple, once folks are sure of the safety of information on IRCTC, more and more folks will book tickets via IRCTC. This will surely increase the numbers of ePayment Fans.