4 Jul 2012
New Tatkal ticket booking rules - New Tatkal Ticket Rules from 10th July 2012 ,New Tatkal Booking Timings from 10th July 2012
New Tatkal ticket booking rules - New Tatkal Ticket Rules from 10th July 2012 ,New Tatkal Booking Timings from 10th July 2012 Railway Board reviewed the tatkal scheme, which was introduced to help passengers travelling on emergency. However, there have been increased complaints that passengers have been unable to exploit the scheme properly, thanks to the role of touts.
Despite a number of changes carried out in the scheme in the recent past including reducing the days for reserving tatkal tickets from five to only one day and barring web-based agents from booking tickets during the first hours, touts continued to exploit the scheme, selling tatkal tickets at a premium.
At present, tatkal scheme is available in around 2677 trains which translates to around 1.71 lakh berths. In 2011-12, earning from the scheme stood at Rs 847 crore.
Gupta said CRIS, the IT wing of railways and IRCTC, will audit the tatkal programme to plug the loopholes to check irregularities.
Other measures like allowing reservation of only one ticket from a computer system is also being looked into.
Meanwhile, RPF has posted two special teams to keep a watch on touts crowding booking counters while policing will be stepped up in ticketing offices to arrest unauthorised vendors and the touts.
Even as more than 900 touts have been apprehended over the last one year, Gupta said 100 to 200 touts were caught only in the last couple of weeks due to the stepped up efforts to take on them.
He said steps were also being contemplated for manning of the automatic vending machine at railway platforms.
Despite a number of changes carried out in the scheme in the recent past including reducing the days for reserving tatkal tickets from five to only one day and barring web-based agents from booking tickets during the first hours, touts continued to exploit the scheme, selling tatkal tickets at a premium.
At present, tatkal scheme is available in around 2677 trains which translates to around 1.71 lakh berths. In 2011-12, earning from the scheme stood at Rs 847 crore.
Gupta said CRIS, the IT wing of railways and IRCTC, will audit the tatkal programme to plug the loopholes to check irregularities.
Other measures like allowing reservation of only one ticket from a computer system is also being looked into.
Meanwhile, RPF has posted two special teams to keep a watch on touts crowding booking counters while policing will be stepped up in ticketing offices to arrest unauthorised vendors and the touts.
Even as more than 900 touts have been apprehended over the last one year, Gupta said 100 to 200 touts were caught only in the last couple of weeks due to the stepped up efforts to take on them.
He said steps were also being contemplated for manning of the automatic vending machine at railway platforms.
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