Conviction of Mind

For those who are new to booking ticket in IRCTC, take a look at my previous post . There is some good news for the IRCTC users. You are in no need to search for your ID card while booking your ticket. Also, you can take the print-out of the mail sent to you and travel with that. The only thing is at least one person mentioned in the booked ticket should have his ID card to show it to the TTE/TTR. These are the recent set of instructions for e-Ticket bookers in IRCTC There is a introduction of "Side Middle" in few of the trains and it does improve the revenue for the government. But it puzzles even frequent travellers!! More puzzle comes on the way when you booked a upper birth and got a side middle birth. Sometimes TTEs rectify this and sometimes they don't. Even if the ticket say S5 35/ UB, you will be alloted Side Middle. Can you spot out why? When you booked the ticket the system was programmed to have 8 births / compartment. Now, after the introduction of Side Midd...

Computers are ubiquitous and it hasn't left Indian Railways behind. IRCTC is a site for booking train tickets online. Unlike the booking of air tickets, IRCTC accept your debit cards as well. So, those who don't like credit cards (for any matter), can use this site to book tickets online without any fuss. Even now, I can see so many people standing in a long queue to book their tickets! If you know how to create a e-mail online, then you can book a train ticket as well. It will take about 5 minutes to book a ticket online when you have all the other information handy. You can use many other sites to check for the availability and then carry on to this site to book the ticket online. Better use e-ticket option There are two options in the site. one is i-ticket and the other e-ticket. When you choose i-ticket, the ticket booked will be delivered at your doorstep. When you choose e-ticket, the ticket will be instantly delivered through your printer! Even if you don't have a p...

There are many offers always available worldwide but not always useful (with most of them eye-catching discounts at perfectly wrong time) Coming to the offer of discussion, Axis bank has come up with an offer for increasing the awareness of its VISA debit card in doing transactions online (buying and selling goods). It is not linked with IRCTC but giving Rs.50/- on the first successful transaction made on the VISA debit card (with registration between July 1st to August 31st). This amount will be remitted to your account only after a month. Even if you are a infrequent traveler in train, you can use this IRCTC site to book tickets right at your desk. These things are of great convenience with the increase in the pace of technology. Also, You can book tickets 3 months in advance. For those riders who prefer to make the decision at the end, there is TATKAL which opens 5 days before the journey date and you can book these tickets as well in IRCTC Here comes the funny part. For those who a...