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IRCTC to book 7, 200 e-tickets per minute
28 May 2013

Online ticket booking portal, IRCTC has announced that it is going to undergo a server upgrade to allow 7, 200 e-ticket booking every minute within this fiscal year. Currently, it supports only 2000 ticket booking every minute. A detailed plan for the upgrade was presented by RK Tandon, the managing director of IRCTC to Union Railway Minister, CP Joshi.

The upgrade project will cost an estimated Rs 100 crore to the Central Railway. Apart from Joshi, Vinay Mittal, the board chairman for Railways and Sunil Kumar, the MD of CRIS were also present in the meeting. CRIS is also the technical body of the

Indian Railways and will be working on the IRCTC website upgrade. Officials also added that this upgrade process is already under process and each day the capacity of IRCTC is increasing with average number of booking increasing from 3.67 lakh tickets in 2012 to 4.15 lakh tickets in the present scenario.

Indian Railways books 31 crore reserved tickets every day and almost 37 per cent of the bookings are online. The tender for the upgrade process has already been floated and a next generation software system is expected soon. The load on IRCTC website is maximum with the Tatkal booking opening at 10 AM and the similar is the structure based on vacations and festivals.

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Sanjiv Singh
29 May 2013

Finally IRCTC woke up on the issue of poor capacity of handling huge volume of traffic especially at the time of tatkal bookings. God know what was holding them back to have this done earlier.

A website which gives them approx 230 crore (if 37% out of 31 crore reserved bookings are done via website and value of each transaction is about Rs. 200) daily in revenues, they took years to decide on a 100 crore worth of an upgrade. Thanks to our government and their processes.