Now book your Indian Rail Tickets - ANYWHERE ANYTIME through your Mobile Phones. Wanna try?

Now book your Indian Rail Tickets - ANYWHERE ANYTIME through your Mobile Phones.

Wanna try?

IRCTC has taken another step to popularize Electronic Tickets. Currently, 50% of Long distance tickets are in the electronic mode. With the new feature of booking railway tickets through Mobile Phones, the share of electronic tickets is bound to go up.

The best part of this feature, is that there is no need for the consumer to download any App to their mobile phone. They can directly log into the mobile website with the same password and ID, as used for internet rail tickets booking.

IRCTC brings to you the mobile website https://www.irctc.co.in/mobile with just a few clicks you can book your tickets using your Mobile Phones.

IRCTC mobile website is convenient and easy to use, can be accessed from any browser enabled mobile having basic GPRS activated on phone.

The following features are available:

Book Ticket/ Enquiry- Book tickets by providing source and destination.

Booked History- Tickets whose Date of Journey is due will be visible.

Cancel Ticket- Cancel any of the tickets whose date of journey is due.

Browse the URL using your mobile and book tickets using any of your credit/debit card for payment.

Help for booking

1. Login to URL with your existing IRCTC user id and password.

2. Fill in details for plan my travel.

3. Select the train and continue the booking.

4. Use existing passenger list on add passengers.

5. Confirm booking details and pay through Credit/debit card to get successful booking.

6. Receive a SMS and an email from IRCTC with the complete travel details.

7. Receive a SMS from your Bank/Credit Card Issuing Bank for the amount debited from your Credit/Debit Card.

Reference : Railway Board Letter No.2008/TG-I/10/P/SMS dated 20.07.2011

              Electronic Reservation Slip (ERS) - The printout in standard specified Performa containing reservation particulars, and instructions for use which can be used by the passenger along with the relevant authorized Identification, as travel authority for performing the journey.

           

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         Virtual Reservation Message (VRM) - A screen-shot of the e-ticket displayed through laptops/palmtops/ Mobile phone is referred as Virtual Reservation Message (VRM).

                 ERS/VRM along with any one of the nine prescribed ID proofs in original and the indication of the passenger(s)' name(s) in the Reservation Chart will authorize the passenger to travel.

               VRM combined with valid photo-id in original will be treated as an instrument on par with the ERS. 

                ERS/VRM along with one of the nine prescribed proofs of identity in original will also authorize the passenger to enter the platform on the day of journey and he/she will not be required to purchase platform ticket. ERS/VRM along with original id proof will be required to be produced on demand of Ticket Checking Staff on the platform.

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

  

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.