Zee Media Bureau
New Delhi: Booking train ticket through IRCTC website has become easier now as railways on Wednesday launched the next generation e-ticketing system to make the whole process much faster.
Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda today launched the next generation e-ticketing system by clicking the new revamped IRCTC ticketing website.
Besides, Gowda also launched a series of IT (Information and Technology) initiatives in the rail sector including e-demand and e-division module of freight services, mobile application for train enquiry and Go India Smart card.
With the launch of next generation e-ticketing system, the ticket booking capacity through the website has been enhanced to 7200 tickets per minute in the peak hours as against 2000.
Ticket booking was sometime getting slow due to overload and traffic congestion.
"The website has been revamped at an estimated cost of Rs 180 crore and as a result the next generation e-ticketing system is much faster and it can take traffic load during peak hours," said the official.
Currently there are about 4.5 lakh e-tickets booked on an average through the IRCTC website which can go upto 6 lakh during the peak period.
With agency inputs
