2000 percent Increase in the Webtraffic and Online transactions at the Indian Railways online ticketing Portal!!!
Wowowowow!!!
Interesting ain’t it? Beleive me its not only interesting, but just too good, and this time its true...the Online ticketing option of the Indian Railways, has helped me to a gr8 extend, I remember the day when I had to go to the Andheri W stn, to get a ticket booked to Delhi, it was hellish nightmare, I actually stood in the Q for close to 2 hours, because the person at the Counter had her own personal problems creeping in once in a while, and to add to it all, the server crashed and no one was there to help the Reservation Staff in getting back things to normalcy....it was crazy, and the heat jus added to it all...
And when it was my turn at the Counter, the train of my choice was full, and the Counter Lady was not willing to tell me of another train, seemed I had to approach the Enquiry counter for that one!! Crazy as hell...I went back to my office, and hit the google site, to see wat it had to offer and to my rescue was the online booking of the I.R...
Click click and click...therez all the info u wanted!!! No rude Lady, no problems with exact change, no wasting time, no nothing, just information, information and more information!
and I booked my first Indian Railway ticket online, and Yipeeee it was delivered at my office address, the very next day, only for a nominal fee of 20 Rs, or was it 30?
the Site is secure, I used my Credit card to get the ticket, that was then, today, they have tie ups with ICICI, Citi bank and so on...and it links directly to ur online account, and debits the same, no hassles watsoever.
Initially the service was only to users in Delhi and Mumbai, today it has grown to lot more cities :
Agra, Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Allahabad, Alapuzha, Aluva, Anand, Agartala, Bangalore, Baroda, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Darjeeling, Indore, Chennai, Dehradun, Gandhinagar, Goa, Kannur, Kochi, Kollam, Haldwani, Hyderabad and Secunderabad,
Kottayam, Kozhikode, Mangalore Jabalpur, Jaipur, Jalandhar, Jammu, Kanpur Mysore, Madurai, Nashik, Palakkad
Kolkata, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Mumbai Rajkot, Siliguri, Shillong, Tiruchchirapalli
Nagpur, Nainital, New Delhi and NCR Tiruppur, Tiruvalla
Patna, Pune, Roorkee, Saharanpur Tiruvananthapuram, Trissur
Silvasa, Surat, Varanasi, Vapi Vijayawada and Vishakapatnam...
For the complete list, please visit, https://irctc.co.in
Booking Hours
Week Days : 08:00 AM to 10:00 PM
Sundays : 08:00 AM to 02:00 PM
U have to allow atleast 3 days for delivery just to b on the safe side.
So once u start doing ur booking thru this portal, am sure u are going to have a smile too...like me, I am smiling and am sure, if the Government, the PSUs and the like, if they did dedicate the tax that we pay to such implementations, then India can indeed be smiling!!!
Talking of the Railways, ever wondered how we got the Comfort of toilets in our coaches???? Read on...this letter was taken from one of the archives of the Indian Railways...am sure most of u wud have gone thru it, for the others...
The (in)famous Jackfruit Letter There is a very persistent legend about a letter purportedly written by an irate railway passenger suffering on account of the premature departure of a train. The letter is claimed to have been written around 1909 (a precise date of July 2, 1909 is also sometimes claimed), addressed to the Divisional Office of the East Indian Railway or the Transportation Superintendent at Sahibganj, West Bengal, or to the Railway Board. The letter is said to have been discovered in railway records in West Bengal, or in the Railway Board’s archives in New Delhi, or to have been published in the August 1909 issue of ’Indian Railways’ (published by the Railway Board). It is very likely that this letter is a legend or joke, even if it was reproduced in an official publication. The text of the letter follows.
Dear Sir,
I am arrive by passenger train at Ahmedpore station, and my belly is too much full of jack fruit. I am therefore went to privy, Just as I doing the nuisance, that guard making whistle blow for train to go off and I am running with lotah in one hand and dhotie in the next hand. I am fall over and expose my shockings to man, females, woman on platform. I am get leaved at Ahmedpore station.
This too much bad, if passenger go to make dung, that dam guard no wait train 5 minutes for him. I am therefore pray your honour to make big fine on that guard for public sake, otherwise I am making big report to papers.
Your faithful servant
Okhil Ch. Sen
take care all...
regards,
me!