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Technology can indeed transform the society, and solve real-world problems. Indian Railways’ new scheme, called Railwire Saathi is a perfect example of this theory. The New Digital PCO @ Railway Stations! Before mobile and Internet…

As of now, there is a mismatch between accommodation in reserved trains - While some trains are running with additional passengers, there are some trains which are running empty. And the irony is that, in most of the cases, both of…

Since last year, we have been speculating about making Aadhaar card a mandatory requirement for booking train tickets. IRCTC had been giving us hints, but no formal announcement was made. Now, it seems that the decks have been…

You would be surprised to know that Indian Railways earn less than 5% of their revenues via non-fare sources. In order to increase this share, and to introduce innovative approaches for generating revenue, IRCTC is all set to unleash…

Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has announced that IRCTC will soon launch a product, using which non-smartphone users can easily book an online ticket. Right now, only those who can access Internet via smartphone or desktop/laptop…

At a time when the government is encouraging every industry to transact digitally and ditch hard cash transactions, Indian Railways has now decided to go digital with ticket booking across its offline counters pan-India. Indian…

After effects of currency ban is slowly coming into force. While SBI has claimed 100% increase in digital payments, India’s largest ecommerce portal, IRCTC.co.in will not charge any online booking fee till December 31. Online Booking…

Indian Railways can soon launch a massive paperless, cashless initiative of their own, wherein passengers can book unreserved train tickets directly from e-wallets such as Paytm, Airtel Money, Jio Money, Freecharge and other e-wallets.…

Gone would be the days when harried passengers were seen scouting for charts outside train coaches or using torch to find out their berth numbers at night. As per a massive transformation unleashed by Indian Railways, AC coaches would…

IRCTC, which is India’s largest ecommerce portal with $3 billion annual revenues as close to 10 lakh tickets are issued per day on their website. Indian Railways runs 12,000 trains daily, carrying over 23 million passengers to their…