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PhonePe Introduces IRCTC Micro-app on its Platform

30Nov By Gauri SinghNo Comments

BUSINESS

PhonePe Introduces IRCTC Micro-app on its Platform

PhonePe, a Flipkart-owned digital payments platform will now offer an IRCTC micro-app on its platform. The company has partnered with Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) to carry forward with this process. This development has come three months after PhonePe struck a partnership with IRCTC to facilitate digital payments on the IRCTC Rail connect Android app. With this, the micro-app will now allow users to book their train tickets directly through the PhonePe App. "We are continuously evolving and innovating towards building a hassle-free ecosystem for our 100 million users and the association with IRCTC is another step in that direction. Our aim is to create a unified login and payments experience across all important consumer use cases especially in the space o...

Railway Tickets Soon To Introduce T For ‘Transgenders’

30Oct By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

INDIA

Railway Tickets Soon To Introduce T For ‘Transgenders’

Transgenders will now have the option of identifying themselves as the third gender with the Railway Board modifying reservation forms to provide the option T, besides M (Male) and F (Female). The Railway Board in a letter to all zonal railways has said that ticket booking and cancellation forms will be modified from the current option of Transgender (Male/Female) to just T. According to the letter, the social justice and empowerment ministry is at present dealing with various issues of transgenders and a proposed legislation on this -- The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, is being reviewed by a parliamentary standing committee. "The matter has been reviewed and it has been decided that till such time the detailed modalities on this account are finalised by the...

IRCTC Offers mVisa Payment Solution For Travellers

14Jun By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

INDIA

IRCTC Offers mVisa Payment Solution For Travellers

Rail travellers can now book tickets by mVisa payment method which allows them to scan a quick response (QR) code and pay through smartphones. Users can securely link their visa debit, credit or prepaid account to the mVisa application on their smartphones and make their travel bookings by simply scanning their mVisa QR code on the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation website. IRCTC, a subsidiary of the Indian Railways, is offering a promotion offer until September 4 that will give Rs 50 cashback to consumers booking their tickets through mVisa scan and pay on the IRCTC website. "The key to our success as Indias largest e-commerce organisation has been our ability to embrace new technologies that help us drive consumer engagement across our platform," IRCTC CMD AK Manoc...

11May By PriyankaNo Comments

INDIA

Indian Railway Acquiring Technology To Run Trains Without Guards

The Indian Railways will float global tenders worth over Rs 100 crore for acquiring sophisticated equipment to run 1000 trains without guards. The End of Train Telemetry (EoTT) equipment is used to establish communication between the locomotive driver and the last wagon of the train to ensure that the train is running with all coaches/wagons as a complete unit. The equipment is designed to do the guards job by giving indication to the loco driver in case of parting of coaches or wagons from the rear side of the train. Each set of EoTT device is estimated to cost approximately Rs 10 lakh. EoTT system comprises two units one unit called cab display unit (CDU) fitted on the locomotive and the other is sense and brake unit (SBU) fitted on the last coach or wagon of the train. Bo...

10May By AnkitaNo Comments

INDIA

Indian Railway Started Delivery of Train Tickets at Doorstep

IRCTC has offered delivery of rail tickets allowing passengers to make payment through any payment mode, including cash. Broad-basing the customer service, the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation has now introduced pay-on- delivery service allowing passengers to book train tickets online and pay at the time of delivery. IRCTC through its website and mobile app has now introduced pay-on-delivery as one of the payment options for its customers, said a senior IRCTC official. Delivering tickets at the consumers doorstep by offering the pay-on-delivery (PoD) option will facilitate those consumers who book through travel agents to move to online medium. It will also encourage people who book at railway reservation counters to move to online medium as there is a cost and e...

Now You Can Book Tatkal Ticket Using Mobikwik Wallet

3Nov By AnkitaNo Comments

News

Now You Can Book Tatkal Ticket Using Mobikwik Wallet

Mobile payments network MobiKwik has partnered Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) to launch e-cash payments for tatkal bookings. "MobiKwik collaborated with Indian Railways to digitise payments on the IRCTC app and IRCTC FoodOnTrack app this year, and now we are powering payments for tatkal online that will help users book tickets almost instantly," MobiKwik Co-founder Upasana Taku said in a statement today. MobiKwik said instantaneous e-cash payments will help tatkal online in managing the load of over a thousand ticket bookings per minute. The service will also help users in ensuring that their bookings do not get rejected due to payment delays. On an average, over 15 percent daily ticket bookings for Indian Railways happen under tatkal, it said. The paym...

How Autonomous Technology Reduced Rajdhani, Shatabdi Travel Time

12Oct By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

INDIA

How Autonomous Technology Reduced Rajdhani, Shatabdi Travel Time

A signalling system upgrade on congested routes has helped the Indian Railways to reduce the travel time of 14 premier trains, including the Rajdhani Expresses from the national capital to Howrah and the Patna and Delhi-Amritsar Shatabdi. A total of 350 Mails/Expresses and 74 Superfast trains, including Rajdhanis and Shatabdis, are now reaching destinations 5-25 minutes before time because of removal of bottlenecks and rationalisation of timetable, said a senior railway ministry official. The journey time of Rajdhani services for Bhubaneswar, Sealdah and Dibrugarh and Chennai-Coimbatore and Howrah-Puri Shatabdi trains has come down due to the improvement in the signalling system. The official said the Route Relay Interlocking (RRI) system was installed on busy routes to ensure faster ...

From Booking Ticket to Ordering Meal, All on New Rail Application Soon

8Oct By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

News

From Booking Ticket to Ordering Meal, All on New Rail Application Soon

A seamless travel experience for rail commuters with a swipe of a finger is in the offing as Railways plans to revamp its mobile application and include “all passenger services” for its customers. “We are preparing an integrated mobile application for railway passengers which will take care of all their needs. “It will be an app that will take care of the entire journey — from booking a ticket to booking a taxi, pre-ordering a meal, requesting for porter services, lodging at a retiring room, ordering a bed roll, complaining about lack of cleanliness in a coach, accessing digital entertainment, reserving a hotel, booking an airline ticket in case of a waitlisted rail ticket, among other services,”said an official from the Non-Fare Directorate of the Railway Ministry. Ernst ...

2Jun By AdityaNo Comments

News

Now ‘ConfirmTkt Alternates’ Will Help Waitlisted Passengers to Get Confirmed Tickets

India's train PNR predictor ConfirmTkt.com has launched a new product 'ConfirmTkt Alternates' to help the waitlisted train passengers to get confirmed tickets by unlocking all the hidden and other best available travel options. Available on Android as well as Apple iOS, the app takes into consideration the delay in the train arrivals and departures while suggesting alternates. "Sometimes no quota can get you confirmed tickets for a train journey. So we have built algorithms. We call it as ConfirmTkt Alternates. We all use these techniques to get to our destination, but we end up wasting a lot of time. Our new feature solves that problem," said Co-founder and COO of ConfirmTkt, Sripad Vaidya. "ConfirmTkt Alternates is a simple solution for the complex problem which eliminat...

Railways Denied Reports of Data Leak From IRCTC Website

5May By AnkitaNo Comments

News

Railways Denied Reports of Data Leak From IRCTC Website

Railways today dismissed reports about the leak of email and mobile numbers from user profile data of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporations (IRCTC) e-ticketing system and said everything is safe and secure. There is no hacking nor any leakage of IRCTC ticketing website and everything is safe, Railway Board Member (Traffic) Mohd Jamshed told PTI. He was replying to a query about reports citing cyber officials in Maharashtra regarding alleged leak of email and mobile numbers from user profile data of IRCTC e-ticketing system. He said the security system has already been reviewed twice in the recent past. Railways constituted a committee comprising cyber experts and vigilance officials from IRCTC and Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) on May 3 to check the po...

Infosys Co-founder Nandan Nilekani Invests in RailYatri.in

2May By PriyankaNo Comments

FUNDING

Infosys Co-founder Nandan Nilekani Invests in RailYatri.in

Nandan Nilekani, Infosys co-founder and former chairman of UIDAI invested an undisclosed investment in RailYatri.in. Founded by Kapil Raizada, Sachin Saxena, and Manish Rathi, Railyatri is a web and mobile app-based startup that provides real-time and analytics-based travel-related information to passengers. The startup claims to serve 2 million users a month. Helion Ventures, Omidyar Networks and Blume Ventures has also invested an undisclosed sum along with Nilekani. “What excites me about RailYatri is the fact that this is a new-age product made by Indians for Indians,” said Nilekani in a statement. “The RailYatri app, which intelligently harnesses the power of smartphones, data and mobile payments, has a huge opportunity of impacting the lives of millions of travellers.” “...

Highlights of the Launch of “Gatimaan Express”, India’s Fastest Train

5Apr By NitishNo Comments

Story

Highlights of the Launch of “Gatimaan Express”, India’s Fastest Train

Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu flagged off India’s first semi-high speed train Gatimaan Express running at a speed of 160 kmph. The train has reached Agra in 100 mins (Avg. time set is 90 mins). Gatimaan Express will run between Hazrat Nizamuddin and Agra Cantonment stations. Gatimaan Express becomes India's fastest train touched top speed of 160 kmph beating India’s fastest train so far the Bhopal Shatabdi running at 150 kmph. Gatimaan covers the 184-kilometre distance between New Delhi and Agra in 100 minutes, as opposed to 110 minutes by the Bhopal Shatabdi. Launch of Gatimaan Express by Honble Minister MR Suresh Prabhu Tdy IR ushers in to the age of #HighSpeedTrains wth Launch of #GatimaanExpress by HonbleMR @sureshpprabhu frm NZMStn pic.twitter.com/hAgCwThQpU —...