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Saturday, 5 July 2014
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How to book railway tickets online?

In order to book railway ticket online first thing you should have is an internet banking facilities which enabled online bank transfer. Secondly, go to www.irctc.co.in. and register yourself with your name and address matched your identity card. After registration is done log in and start searching the trains, routes etc. According to requirements you can now book your ticket. Please note Indian railways have two type of tickets, one is e-ticket and the other is i-ticket. You can book waitlisted tickets also in the case of i tickets. But in e-tickets,Only RAC and confirmed tickets are available. You can take print out of e-ticket and use it as the original ticket provided you have a valid i- card. The serial number of the ID card should be mentioned while booking. This print out ticket is valid only along with the id card you specified while booking. Please also note that the irctc site supports only internet explorer. Once an i-ticket or e-ticket is booked it can be cancelled only through internet.That is the main disadvantage.
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How to book railway ticket IRCTC through mobile SMS

Indian Railways has continuously endeavored to improve the ease and access of  ticketing. The e-ticketing initiative of Indian Railways has been one of the most passenger-friendly initiative of Indian Railways.

Steps to book railway ticket /tatkal through SMS:

First: Register your mobile number with IRCTC as well as your bank. The Bank  will provides you MMID (Mobile Money Identifier) and OTP (one time password) for  authorization of payment.

Second: After getting the MMid and OTP, type the train number, destination, journey date, class and  passenger details like name, age and gender and sent to 139 or 5676714.

Third: On receiving the SMS, you will receive transaction ID and then make payment through sending another SMS by typing PAY followed by the transaction ID, MMID as received from the bank and password.

Fourth: On successful booking of ticket, message will be sent to the user by IRCTC which  will suffice as valid authority to travel along with photo ID card in original.

Please note: The SMS scheme will not be available during 8 am-12 pm for booking ARP/tatkal/general tickets. There will be no need for internet at any stage - booking, payment, cancellation etc.
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