Indian Railways are mulling the sale of e-tickets on its portal which will end IRCTC's monopoly in e-ticketing business and provide multiple booking avenues to rail passengers. Highly placed sources in the Railway Ministry said the new facility will be one of the several passenger-friendly features planned to be rolled out before the Dussehra festival this year that falls towards September end. The decision, if materialises, could be yet another setback for IRCTC, thanks to the new catering policy unveiled recently which stripped the Railway PSU of its catering responsibility that formed its core business
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Yes I believe the internal Indian Railways IT organization that implements CRIS will also be able to sell e-tickets starting in Oct. But will they improve the ability to find trains in the first place ? Try finding the connecting trains between Indore and Rajkot for example. Its a real challenge ! In general finding trains, especially if connections are needed, between 2nd tier cities is really difficult.
ReplyDeleteIt upset me enough to build my own website - at bharatbyrail.com you just enter the cities you are travelling between, state the date and time range and it gives you the best trains, allows ample time for connections and finds routes between nearby stations not just the one you explicitly specify. Armed with these train numbers and times, you can go to IRCTC and make the booking.
Ideally, IRCTC and now CRIS would do all this itself. I'm sure in due course they will. Until then, we have to improvise and so I built my own techniques at bharatbyrail.com - its totally free to all comers and totally ad-free.