IRCTC improved, finally !

[dashing.sujay]

well idk much about tatkal but it should open first for offline ticket booking then online like 1 hour difference should suffice ..........

You should comment such things after thinking. Do you know for how long tatkal remains ? Most of the prominent routes are finished up under 10 mins.

 

[gagan_kumar]

You should comment such things after thinking. Do you know for how long tatkal remains ? Most of the prominent routes are finished up under 10 mins.

well thinking about people waiting in queues like before 5-6 hours of opening tatkal at reservation center i made that comment while on the other hand people simply register a ticket on click of a button..........

 

[whitestar_999]

people do not simply get a tatkal ticket online(at least not earlier).there were many jokes about it(surviving in a battlefield is easier kind).even now all you get is 10 minutes & if you face even a slight connection issue your chance is gone.people on counter at least have a guarantee that they will get a tatkal ticket when their number comes.

 

[dashing.sujay]

One more thing-

Even though the server load has been greatly reduced, but the new site is adding cheery on the cake. Sad part is that the new version of site isn't available to all users, may be on a random basis.

Like it isn't available for my id, so I have to use someone else's id to login. The old version site becomes a bit slow during tatkal hours, much faster than before though, but no where near to the new version site.

I'm talking about this, when talking about new version of site; you should get this after logging in-

Spoiler

*imgur.com/4Z2JqBb.jpg

 

[Vignesh B]

Even my ID hasn't got the new login, so am using my Mom's ID. One thing peculiar, is that the initial login takes a lot of time as compared to the old login. After that its much faster.
But the payment options have been greatly reduced(read removal of options like Axis bank, IOB and a lot others due to absence of payment gateways etc). They support only a couple of debit cards, credit cards. Net baking is like before only.

 

[Vyom]

I never saw that page dashing.sujay, but I did see this after I select the "submit" button:

Spoiler

*i.minus.com/iBRGMaTs1Sm7j.JPG

If you get something other than this after press "Proceed for booking" that would be news!

 

[Vignesh B]

^^ The new login is a continuation of the screenshot that you've given. In the old login, after you click book now, it goes back to the standard IRCTC passenger details page. In the new interface its a continuation of the above screenshot.
Also I get this train info page(like the one in the screenshot) at random times, and at other times I get the old screen with a waiting circle image.

Old interface

Spoiler

*i60.tinypic.com/103sdfr.jpg

New interface

Spoiler

*i57.tinypic.com/2d1vbds.png

 

[gopi_vbboy]

modi??

Well dude Modi does have strong control over bureaucracy and good leadership.
He does know how to market as well as deliver.Let me inform you why its modi effect -

1.
Read this article:

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It was the summer of 1990. As Indian Railway (Traffic) Service probationers, my friend and I travelled by train from Lucknow to Delhi. Two MPs were also travelling in the same bogie. That was fine, but the behaviour of some 12 people who were travelling with them without reservation was terrifying. They forced us to vacate our reserved berths and sit on the luggage, and passed obscene and abusive comments. We cowered in fright and squirmed with rage. It was a harrowing night in the company of an unruly battalion; we were on edge, on the thin line between honour and dishonour. All other passengers seemed to have vanished, along with the Travelling Ticket Examiner.

We reached Delhi the next morning without being physically harmed by the goons, though we were emotionally wrecked. My friend was so traumatised she decided to skip the next phase of training in Ahmedabad and stayed back in Delhi. I decided to carry on since another batchmate was joining me. (She is Utpalparna Hazarika, now Executive Director, Railway Board.) We boarded an overnight train to Gujarat’s capital, this time without reservations as there wasn’t enough time to arrange for them. We had been wait-listed.

We met the TTE of the first class bogie, and told him how we had to get to Ahmedabad. The train was heavily booked, but he politely led us to a coupe to sit as he tried to help us. I looked at the two potential co-travellers, two politicians, as could be discerned from their white khadi attire, and panicked. “They’re decent people, regular travellers on this route, nothing to worry,” the TTE assured us. One of them was in his mid-forties with a normal, affectionate face, and the other in his late-thirties with a warm but somewhat impervious expression. They readily made space for us by almost squeezing themselves to one corner.

They introduced themselves: two BJP leaders from Gujarat. The names were told but quickly forgotten as names of co-passengers were inconsequential at that moment. We also introduced ourselves, two Railway service probationers from Assam. The conversation turned to different topics, particularly in the areas of History and the Polity. My friend, a post-graduate in History from Delhi University and very intelligent, took part. I too chipped in. The discussion veered around to the formation of the Hindu Mahasabha and the Muslim League.

The senior one was an enthusiastic participant. The younger one mostly remained quiet, but his body language conveyed his total mental involvement in what was being discussed, though he hardly contributed. Then I mentioned Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s death, why it was still considered a mystery by many. He suddenly asked: “How do you know about Syama Prasad Mookerjee?” I had to tell him that when my father was a post-graduate student in Calcutta University, as its Vice-Chancellor he had arranged a scholarship for the young man from Assam. My father often reminisced about that and regretted his untimely death [in June 1953 at the age of 51].

The younger man then almost looked away and spoke in a hushed tone almost to himself: “It’s good they know so many things ...”

Suddenly the senior man proposed: “Why don’t you join our party in Gujarat?” We both laughed it off, saying we were not from Gujarat. The younger man then forcefully interjected: “So what? We don’t have any problem on that. We welcome talent in our State.” I could see a sudden spark in his calm demeanour.

The food arrived, four vegetarian thalis . We ate in silence. When the pantry-car manager came to take the payment, the younger man paid for all of us. I muttered a feeble ‘thank you’, but he almost dismissed that as something utterly trivial. I observed at that moment that he had a different kind of glow in his eyes, which one could hardly miss. He rarely spoke, mostly listened.

The TTE then came and informed us the train was packed and he couldn’t arrange berths for us. Both men immediately stood up and said: “It’s okay, we’ll manage.” They swiftly spread a cloth on the floor and went to sleep, while we occupied the berths.

What a contrast! The previous night we had felt very insecure travelling with a bunch of politicians, and here we were travelling with two politicians in a coupe, with no fear.

The next morning, when the train neared Ahmedabad, both of them asked us about our lodging arrangements in the city. The senior one told us that in case of any problem, the doors of his house were open for us. There was some kind of genuine concern in the voice or the facial contours of the otherwise apparently inscrutable younger one, and he told us: “I’m like a nomad, I don’t have a proper home to invite you but you can accept his offer of safe shelter in this new place.”

We thanked them for that invitation and assured them that accommodation was not going to be a problem for us.

Before the train came to a stop, I pulled out my diary and asked them for their names again. I didn’t want to forget the names of two large-hearted fellow passengers who almost forced me to revise my opinion about politicians in general. I scribbled down the names quickly as the train was about to stop: Shankersinh Vaghela and Narendra Modi.

I wrote on this episode in an Assamese newspaper in 1995. It was a tribute to two unknown politicians from Gujarat for giving up their comfort ungrudgingly for the sake of two bens from Assam. When I wrote that, I didn’t have the faintest idea that these two people were going to become so prominent, or that I would hear more about them later. When Mr. Vaghela became Chief Minister of Gujarat in 1996, I was glad. When Mr. Modi took office as Chief Minister in 2001, I felt elated. (A few months later, another Assamese daily reproduced my 1995 piece.) And now, he is the Prime Minister of India.

Every time I see him on TV, I remember that warm meal, that gentle courtesy, caring and sense of security that we got that night far from home in a train, and bow my head.

(The author is General Manager of the Centre for Railway Information System, Indian Railways, New Delhi. leenasarma@rediffmail.com)

She is GM of CRIS (Managing IRCTC)

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2. This guy is an IAS secretary and his tweet on modi meeting

Spoiler

*blogs.economictimes.indiatimes.com/ParthShastra/mediaresource/0f4933ce-da1d-436f-8b20-e20e36934fa3/tweetpic1.jpg

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I you don't get it ...god bless you

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actually this might be true.cbi unearthed a group of booking agents who had managed to install their own booking software directly linked to one of the booking terminal inside mumbai railways office resulting in almost zero public access to tatkal tickets on that server during booking hours.it was suspected that there were other groups hijacking booking servers in such manner.of course none of this is possible without the involvement of railway officials.maybe because of new govt such things have stopped finally freeing much of the tatkal tickets which were earlier pocketed exclusively by booking agents in such groups.

Ya agree..this may happen and govt needs to investigate such things.

 

[anirbandd]

Now i am not going to believe that in India even God can change something in the govt machinery in a year.

And Modi has been on the chair for what, 2 weeks??

Nope. This was not due to modi.
This change was in the pipeline long before he came into power. And it came out as he took his chair.

Take as you want, but this was not Modi's doing.

 

[dashing.sujay]

Even my ID hasn't got the new login, so am using my Mom's ID. One thing peculiar, is that the initial login takes a lot of time as compared to the old login. After that its much faster.
But the payment options have been greatly reduced(read removal of options like Axis bank, IOB and a lot others due to absence of payment gateways etc). They support only a couple of debit cards, credit cards. Net baking is like before only.

I didn't face any login delays, it was as quick as a login could be.

I never saw that page dashing.sujay, but I did see this after I select the "submit" button:

Spoiler

*i.minus.com/iBRGMaTs1Sm7j.JPG

If you get something other than this after press "Proceed for booking" that would be news!

That site was introduced long ago (around some months). Even though it was fast as compared to the age old site of IRCTC, but still was a very marginal improvement.

See the second screenshot by Vignesh, that's the thing I'm talking about. There's no live session timer in the newest site. And a bit aesthetic/UI changes here and there.

 

[Vyom]

No timer in the new interface! So this *is* news!
What do you suggest? Make a new ID to see if I get the new interface?

Oftopic:
Btw, to Vignesh, please use a good image hosting site like, imgur or minus.com, where image if opened in new tab opens just the image not the whole site. Thanks.

 

[dashing.sujay]

You may try. I really don't know on what basis are they pushing new site to random IDs.

See this and compare it with your screenshot-

Spoiler

*imgur.com/Qk5Tr1w.jpg

One more thing- If you enter "*irctc.co.in", then it opens no frills login page (which as intended for tatkal), but if you add www, it opens up the normal login page which is relatively slower. This implication shows how careless engineers at CRIS can be.

Also, do match the URL of mine with yours. Your should be something like jp.irctc.xxxxx versus mine as above.

 

[Vyom]

^ Yea. I get this jp.irctc something. So that means, for me only a part of the website where we actually find trains and book them is from the new one, VS, in your case complete site is new one. Well, I won't worry now much, since I *am* getting the new interface, doesn't matter if the wrapper is the old one!

 

[dashing.sujay]

^But this damn new site is so blazing fast. You ought to try this one.

 

[gopi_vbboy]

^But this damn new site is so blazing fast. You ought to try this one.

Ya ... great achievement is irctc opens ...lol ...

 

[Vignesh B]

I didn't face any login delays, it was as quick as a login could be.

At times , it is opening immediately as I tested now. But at other times, it takes upto 2-3 minutes to load.

Oftopic:
Btw, to Vignesh, please use a good image hosting site like, imgur or minus.com, where image if opened in new tab opens just the image not the whole site. Thanks.

Sorry.
Will do that from the next time.

 

[kaz]

The best feature now is that if the payment gets stuck in middle and its unsuccessful then they display a page with all those booking details and I just have to choose the payment method and proceed...This new site is super cool

 

[anirbandd]

^yes!

i hope it stays that way.

 

[Vyom]

So today when I login to IRCTC in the "RUSH HOUR" the site took a while to load. But when it did load, I was encountered with following screen. Needless to say, I was elated.

*i.minus.com/iD4zAIaepRM7w.PNG

 

[.jRay.]

Site isn't loading for me at all. after login the screen is blank.