Tatkal Railway Reservation

IRCTC or Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation has been claimed by many as one of the best government websites but all that glitters is not gold. Even though the booking time under Tatkal quota has been reduced to 24-hours, but logging in the IRCTC website during the early morning hours is simply next to impossible. What is worse, it has been so for a long time without being addressed. A site that should be optimised for all type of internet connections, including the slower ones, isn't so. Hence, you will find a lot of issues in opening the site and being able to effectively search and/or book and cancel a ticket quite an ordeal. The site is quite content heavy. In fact, it is heavy because of the number of advertisements displayed on it. Also, it takes a lot of time to fill up the information like 'To' and 'From' information and then viewing the trains available etc and if you successfully manage to log-in and fill up the form, by then safely expect the tickets to be 'sold out'. Why not have basic pre-filled information being retained for each login?