New Delhi: Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), the ticketing division of Indian Railways, has made a minor change to the rules for reserving train tickets. Now, when booking tickets, passengers will need to provide their own mobile number as contact details. Indian Railways has taken this step in light of the growing number of ticket resellers and fake tickets surrounding the railways.
The measure also aims to reduce the resellers from which a few passengers buy their train. The new IRCTC rule about providing a passenger’s own contact number will be a deterrent for resellers.
Indian Railways has noted that because the tickets do not have the passenger numbers (those purchased from resellers or others’ IRCTC account), their number is not recorded in the passenger reservation system (PRS) due to passengers often don’t have it. receive SMS notifications on their mobile phones. Passengers in the notification also lose information about train cancellation or revision in a train’s schedule.
In other news, train passengers can now easily view real-time PNR status, as well as other travel-related information via WhatsApp. To do this, passengers must save a number on their mobile. Here is the complete process.
1. Save the phone number 9881193322 on your smartphone
2. Go to WhatsApp and open the chat box number 9881193322
3. Now you will have to send a message to the PNR number in the chat box.
4. You must respond to the information requested for verification
5. Once you complete the above process, you will receive updates related to your trip continuously on WhatsApp.
In November of this year, the IRCTC announced a new rule for reserving tickets. In accordance with this new rule, a second reservation box will be prepared 30 minutes before the scheduled departure of the trains.
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Previously, during the pandemic period, the chart was being prepared two hours before the train’s departure for the comfort of the passengers. Before the time of the pandemic, only the first letter was prepared, four hours before departure. Passengers can reserve the remaining seats online or by visiting the Passenger Reservation System (PRS) counters. People were assigned seats on a first come, first serve basis.
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