Indian Railway’s
passengers can now book / reserve their e-tickets from their cell phones
instead of normal internet booking and carrying print-outs for journey. The new facility being named as ‘m-ticket’,
the mobile phone supported ticket booking system. The new facility now facilitates
the Indian Railway passengers to book train ticket through mobile phones. The
passenger just need to carry the display ticket sent to his cell phone through SMS.
The SMS would be treated enough proof when shown on mobile to take up his
journey. However, the users need to download the mobile ticketing application
from Indian Railway new web portal www.indianrailways.gov.in
OR www.indianrail.gov.in
and should have installed it on his cell
phone for utilizing this facility. The customers who are already utilizing the
facility of booking e-tickets on mobile phones can avail this facility also by
downloading the mobile ticketing application on to their cell phones from the
Indian Railway Portal, using the URL sent in the SMS.
Once “m-ticket”
is booked and payment made online, an SMS containing the m-ticket details will be sent
to the passenger mobile. This message is referred to as Mobile Reservation Message
(MRM). The cost of MRM from Indian Railways web portal shall be borne by Indian
Railways. This facility of booking e-tickets through SMS from Indian Railways
Web Portal will be available from 12.30 AM to 11.30 PM daily. Apart from the latest m-ticket facility,
Indian Railways is also offering number of other services as PNR status,
Trains Schedule, Time Table, Train Running Status etc for the convenience of
passengers.
With the
introduction of this facility, Indian Railway fulfilled its promise for simplified
way of train ticket reservation; m-ticket. The Railway Department has taken
this decision considering the wide spread use of mobile / cell phones in India.
The SMS Services of Indian Railways are supported by leading internet service providers
such as Airtel, BSNL, Vodafone, Idea, Reliance, Aircel, Tata Indicom etc.
Indian Railways is going to use modern technology such as GPRS, CDMA and speech
recognition on various mobile operators.
Procedure to book
m-tickets through SMS: Following is the step by step procedure for M-Ticket
Booking through SMS:
- Registration
shall be completed with the website www.indianrailways.gov.in
OR www.irctc.co.in
OR www.indianrail.gov.in
with option for mobile reservation
services.
- Passengers
List in profile registered with IRCTC shall be created with minimum of one
passenger. This list will be used for the booking process through SMS.
- The passenger
should have Mobile Banking services of banks recommended by the Indian
Railways.
- The passenger
should have a mobile connection with any one of the recognized / identified
operators of India Railways.
- The
complete process of booking a ticket ‘Book Ticket’ can be finished through two
SMS messages, using IRCTC’s short code – 7245.
Before
proceeding with all these, you need to download m-ticket application from the
website or offered by your mobile service provider and you should follow the
installation procedure.
