Good News…There is a Better chance to get a Tatkal Ticket on Indian Railway Site

How many times have you tried to login to the Indian Railway Official website for a Tatkal Ticket and got it successfully? I have more often than not failed to get a Tatkal ticket from IRCTC. One of the known reasons is that during peak travel times, the agents book all the tickets by logging in right at 8:00 AM. For a personal user like me, there was always disappointment in store with the Tatkal tickets. The site gets very slow at 8:00 AM and finally when you login, the tickets are over.

If you have had same experience in the past, there is good news, Indian Railway website has implemented a new feature by which only two transactions are allowed per IP address between 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM. That means, people who are bulk blocking the tickets, cannot do that on the same scale anymore, giving that much more chance to personal users like us to get tickets.

Well done Indian Railways, IRCTC is definitely one of the best and the largest e-Commerce site in India and if more such efforts are taken, the disappointment of consumers will be converted into customer delight in some time.

Good luck with online ticket booking!!! 
Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

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