Whenever you think of a rant, you think of your blog. One such rant today will be on IRCTC. It used to be a good site for train reservations as recently as three months. But since Summer the website has turned pathetic than a passenger train. For now I know three ways to book a train ticket online. 1. IRCTC 2. Makemytrip 3. Cleartrip
Through whichever trip you are booking the ticket, you trip will never be through. Tatkal quota opens at 8am everyday and even if your travel dates are flexible, you would still never get a tatkal ticket two days before your travel despite hanging on the site like a bat from a tree, spoiling your sleep from 8am. IRCTC server never gets connected and you would get your turn after two hours to book a ticket. You will see the cinema that time with the waiting list number hovering around the 80's.
It is a real mess with the site oflate. You are not even able to login at 8am, forget about booking the ticket. If you are one of those lucky blokes who come close to booking a ticket after entering your and the credit card details, then comes your IRCTC's blue screen of death message, "Service Unavailable".
Three freaking days I was hanging on the site at 8am to make a reservation but no, it was impossible.
No one knows who all are the fraudulent people make the life miserable to the common man by not allowing them to book the tickets. But everyone guesses it is the travel agents who are doing it. Call the railway guys and you may probably get a curt answer saying, "Load on the server is high and too many reservations being made. It is a fair process".
We still haven't spoken about the people standing in the serpentine queues at the reservation counters. Enough said.
1 comment:
This new tatkal scheme is still not implemented at least in practice.What is worse is that the website claims it is in effect from 21-11-2011 but only today(27th Nov) i booked a ticket for Jhelum express for (29th Nov).This should not have been possible under the new Tatkal scheme which allows booking only 1 day in advance.I am amazed at the inefficiency of "irctc" website,either changes have not been made in the website to accomodate the new tatkal scheme or it is just pure negligence on the part of the authorities.Ultimately the passengers will suffer who would be waiting to book the tatkal ticket 1 day in advance when the tickets would be already exhausted by people who would have discovered they are avlbl even 2 days in advance!Wow i luv this country!
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