Indian Railways: There has been a change in the rules of booking train tickets. Railway passengers will now have to enter their mobile number in the register contact number while booking tickets. The railway has given this information in a statement.
Railways says that some railway passengers take tickets from agents or other people’s account and due to which their contact number is not recorded in the PRS system. For this, if there is a change in the schedule of the train or if the train is canceled, then the SMS of its information is not available to the passenger on his mobile phone.
Railway has said in the statement, “All passengers are requested to register their mobile number in the contact number at the time of booking the tickets. So that they can keep updated with the information of any changes in the train schedule from the railway side. Rail passengers will benefit from this. ”
How to book tickets online?
Booking of tickets can be done online through IRCTC. For this, you should have an account with IRCTC, on which tickets can be booked after login. For this, you will need to know how booking can be done through the website.
Create an account if you do not have an account
- For this, first go to IRCTC’s website www.irctc.co.in. After this, click on the register option.
- After this a page will open, after which the registration form will open. You will have to fill all the information there. For example, user name, password, name, address, gender, date of birth, occupation, mobile number, Aadhaar number, email ID, security question and answer, language etc.
- After this, enter the verification code and submit.
- After this, a dialog box will appear on a new page, where you have to click on the concept.
- After which the page with information about successful registration opened. Information about your user name and password will be sent to email. After which you can log in.
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How to book
- Go to IRCTC’s site and login by entering your username and password.
- After this go to the ‘Book Your Ticket’ page. If you search from which station to which station, you will get the details of the train.
- Choose the date of travel and in which class to travel.
- After this, the information about the available train and its journey will be revealed to you.
- Click on the train which is available on that day.
- After that, click on ‘Book Now’ in the selected train.
- The form will open in front of you, fill in the passenger details according to the correct name, address, age and gender. Names must not exceed 16 characters.
- If asking for the information of Aadhaar number, then fill it incorrectly.
- To get free SMS for booking and cancellation, fill the mobile number of the passenger and click on the ‘Next’ button. If you want to change any information, then click on ‘Replan booking’.
- Now you have to click on the payment options. To make a payment, choose one of the payment gateways like Credit Card, Debit Card, Net Banking, Mobile Voltage etc.
- After this, click on ‘Make Payment’. After successful payment, ticket confirmation page will open in front of you. If you want, take a print out of it.
- You will also get the message of reservation through SMS.
Source: www.financialexpress.com