If you are planning a journey by rail mid-February, this piece of information may interest you! The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has come up with certain limitations for booking tickets online at its authorized website. Users can’t book more than six tickets in a month. As per the existing system, an individual user can book a maximum of 10 tickets via the IRCTC website in a month.
The initiative is aimed to facilitate genuine users and thwart misuse by touts who tend to sell tickets illegally. The new rule will come into effect from February 15, 2016.
The Railway Ministry stated in a press release, “This has been done keeping in view the analysis of usage of quota of 10 tickets which indicated that ninety per cent of users are booking up to six tickets in a given month and only 10 per cent are making more than six tickets.”
New rules that you need to know:
- Individuals are allowed to book only 2 tickets per user-ID in a day (for ARP booking) from 08:00 hours to 10.00 hours.
- You can book only 2 Tatkal tickets per user-ID in a day from 10:00 hours to 12:00 hours.
- A maximum of 10 tickets can be booked online in a month by an individual.
- Quick Book Option is disabled from 08:00 to 12:00 hours
- Ticketing agents (YTSK, RTSA, IRCTC agents etc.) have been debarred from booking tickets during the first thirty minutes of opening of booking i.e. from 08:00 to 08:30 hours for general bookings, and from 10:00 to 10:30 hours and 11:00 to 11:30 hours for Tatkal booking in AC and non-AC classes respectively.
- Booking is not allowed through e-wallet and cash cards from 08:00 to 12:00 hours.
- Though not more than one booking in one user login session is allowed between 08:00 to 12:00 hours, exceptions are made for return/onward journeys.
