IRTCT – Helping You Travel To Your Destinations with Ease
IRCTC is Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation. It looks after both tourism and catering as well as online booking and is under the railway ministry. Catering was a major venture of IRCTC and the introduction of pantry cars came as a great relief to the passengers. Earlier it used to cater for all the trains but now the catering service is taken up by the Indian Railways and IRTCT is in charge of catering in a few trains.
The online booking is the major attraction of IRCTC. By logging on to the website of IRCTC, you can check the available trains, their routes and timings, seat availability, prices of tickets and get any other information you want. When you get the train of your requirements, you can book tickets online, get the reservation confirmed and take a print out of the e-ticket. All this is possible within a few seconds and that too sitting comfortably at your home or office. You can also book tickets online and get the proper ticket, which is called i-ticket, by post. The online booking is also possible on the mobile phones through GPRS or SMS and this can be done even when you are traveling. Other than booking tickets, you can also book flights, hotels and car rental online.
Men of age 65 and above and women of age 58 and above are considered as senior citizens, and they have a concession of 40%. Children below 5 years of age do not require a ticket and no seat is allotted to them. Children of the age group 5 to 12 years need a half-ticket and they will be allotted a seat or berth. Indian Railways has recently come out with paperless ticket facility. It is enough if you carry ticket in electronic mode in your mobile, iPad or laptop. This helps save a lot of paper.
IRCTC also offers booking tickets through the “Tatkal” scheme whereby you have to submit your ID proof to book tickets. Here you can reserve tickets 24 hours prior to the journey. This comes as a great relief when an emergency comes and there is an urgent need for the journey.
Tourism promotion is one of the main features of IRCTC. It organizes a lot of budget and deluxe packaged tours for both domestic and foreign tourists. Bharat Darshan is a popular tourism package and it covers many tourist spots in India. Luxury tourism packages are mainly meant to encourage foreign tourism in India. Packages are also there for adventures like trekking, wild life tours, water sports, etc.
Within a short span of time the site has become very popular with the people all over the world. So, log on to the website of IRTCT and check out its features.
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