Book
your ticket using secure internet websites
It is frequently daunted question as to how to book electronic
ticket and how much is that secure. For
introducing the peoples to the Indian Railways approved and secured online ticket
booking websites, some illustrations are given hereunder.
- Official Website
Before you could book your ticket, you would have to generate your account with the IRCTC. Individual registration is FREE. However, a valid Mobile number and valid email id are mandatory to register as individual user on the IRCTC website. Once the account is registered with IRCTC website the user could go through User Guide provided on the website for familiarizing himself for booking/ cancellation of I-Ticket or E-Ticket depending upon their option of choice. I-Tickets are delivered through courier to the address registered with the IRCTC website account and for that some additional charges are levied per delivery. E-Tickets are more convenient as the print of ticket could be taken at the convenience. The cancellation procedures for the two are slightly different.
IRCTC has also introduced
IRCTC Mobile, Railway Ticketing through mobile phones. One can start using it
right away if he is an IRCTC user and have a Java enabled mobile phone or a
smart phone with GPRS service activated on his mobile phone. Payments are made
by credit card/cash card.
Indian Railways Passenger Reservation enquiries can also be made through Indian Railways website.
It
is a very common complaint that the IRCTC site loads slow and navigation through is cumbersome. Such
situations however are limited and are normally experienced at the time of
start of bookings when too many people’s frequent the website for booking of
their ticket or during festival and vacations period when peoples travels
across the country. In order to overcome sudden pressure on IRCTC website,
Indian Railways has approved some other service providers also. A brief
introduction of such service providers are given hereunder:
Cleartrip: To
book the ticket via Clear Trip log on the website http://www.cleartrip.com and then click on the Trains if
you have an account else create an account as per instructions on the
website and book your ticket.
ixigo.com: To
book the ticket via ixigo.com log on the website http://www.ixigo.com and
then click on the Trains if you have an account else create an account as
per instructions on the website and book your ticket.
Makemytrip:
To book the ticket via makemytrip log on the website http://www.makemytrip.com and then click
on the Trains
if you have an account else create an account as per instructions on the
website and book your ticket.
