A new railway ticketing portal is being launched by the Indian Railways, which will be run by Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS), the IT arm of Indian Railways. In her third consecutive annual Railway Budget today, Railway Minister, Mamata Banerjee said that the service charge for booking of tickets through this portal would be cheaper at Rs 10 for AC classes and Rs 5 for others, which is half the half of the existing service charge levied by the IRCTC reservation portal, at Rs 20 for AC and Rs 10 for others. This begs the question: why does the Indian Government need two ticketing portal, both being run by government agencies? What’s not clear is whether IRCTC, arguably the largest e-commerce business in India, will continue to offer online train reservation.
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v. A new portal for e-ticketing by Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) is ready and will be launched shortly. Booking of tickets through this portal would be cheaper with a charge of only ` 10 for AC classes and ` 5 for others;
So finally! It was long due.Had heard sometime back that it will create another site parallel to irctc or that irctc agreement has lapsed.Anyways good days ahead...
Why they charge extra money for online booking and why is website for booking available only during working hours like good for nothing sarkari babu? Make the damn thing 24x7x365.
Some years back, web booking opened at 4 am (or 6 am , I am not sure), but counter booking started at 8 am. So, people waiting in the Q in stations got wait listed tickets often. Hence online booking hours are synchronised to counte booking - 8 am to 8 pm.Only when there is a balance is supply-demand; 24 hour booking will make sense.
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