Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) is all set to charge a fee of Rs 12 plus taxes on every ticket booked from service providers such as MakeMyTrip, Yatra,
Paytm and
Cleartrip, according to a TOI report. Earlier, a flat annual maintenance fee used to be charged by IRCTC.
Also, the contract by IRCTC mentions a ‘look to book’ ratio of 1:70, as per which there should be at least one ticket
booking for seventy enquiries. With service providers offering customers facilities such as PNR status search as well as other inquiry facilities if the rail bookings fail to keep up with the ‘look to book’ ratio of 1:70 then they will have to pay 25 paise for every enquiry to IRCTC.
According to IRCTC, in addition to the annual maintenance charges, Rs 5 will be charged for display of advertisements and Rs 15 will be charged for cashback offers or for clubbing ticket sales with products and services of third-party. Also, there will be an additional charge of Rs 25 per ticket in case of cross-selling of any third-party products.