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IRCTC: Online Ticketing isn’t even a quarter in revenue as catering

While you might have assumed ticketing to be a significant revenue earner for IRCTC, the truth is that it is among the lowest. Internet ticketing (12.4% of topline), Catering (52.9%),…

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IRCTC IPO; IPL Brand Valuation..and more. #Today

The stuff that went into NextBigWhat’s /Today Newsletter Salesy season has begun in India and here are a few products which are really worth buying and are now carrying great…

Tech

IRCTC is launching its own payment gateway, iPay

IRCTC's own payment Agreegator IRCTC-iPay will be available on http://irctc.co.in by Aug-18 as PCI-DSS security certificate has been granted to IRCTC. IRCTC's own payment Agreegator IRCTC-iPay will be available on…

Tech

IRCTC’s online ticketing revenue drops by 26% in FY17 due to service charge withdrawal

The government’s decision in November 2016 to withdraw service charge on e-tickets, to promote digital payments, cost IRCTC a 26% drop in internet ticketing revenue to Rs 466.05 crore in…

Digital India

Why IRCTC tatkal booking was such a pain? This CBI techie hacked the system for many years

While it normally takes around 120 seconds to generate a PNR, Ajay Garg’s software was able to generate a number of them extremely fast. The software could bypass IRCTC captcha,…

Culture & More

Good news: IRCTC app now shows options of 3 genders

In a great move forward, IRCTC app now shows options of 3 genders – male, female and transgender. Helps build an inclusive society. [via]

Digital India

IRCTC recorded Rs 24,022 crores revenue in FY 15-16 (FYI : 82% more than Flipkart)

While we can continue the monopolistic argument, the reality is that every damn sector is facing stiff competition and IRCTC growth is no small achievement.

Indian Startups

Mobikwik Partners With IRCTC For Tatkal Tickets Payments

Mobile payments company MobiKwik has partnered with the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), to provide e-cash payments for Tatkal bookings. To book a tatkal ticket with MobiKwik within…

Indian Startups

Paytm Now Lets You Make IRCTC Train Ticket Bookings

The mobile payment and e-commerce platform is now allowing users to book train tickets via IRCTC direct from their website and app, in an effort to become the largest travel…

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IRCTC Makes Aadhar Card Mandatory For Ticket Booking

Starting December 2016, you would need to have an aadhar id to book train tickets – for both reserved and unreserved categories; besides holding true for online as well as counter tickets.…

IRCTC to launch several new initiatives, including passenger insurance and unreserved ticketing

Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) is collaborating with institutions like State Bank of India, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, and Institute of Hotel Management, Catering & Nutrition, Pusa to upgrade its services. Initiatives like passenger insurance, unreserved ticketing, digital payments will be announced soon, along with a simpler process of e-ticket cancellation.

Digital India

IRCTC Website Hacked! [Updated]

India’s largest e-commerce website IRCTC which completes more than 5 lakh transactions everyday has been hacked, according to reports. Government owned e-ticketing portal had stored personal data of around 1…

Digital India

IRCTC Partners With Simpli5d Technologies To Enhance Security And Boost Ad Revenues

IRCTC accounts for more than 1 million e-commerce transactions per day and more than 100 million captchas are solved on the platform

Starting Today, You Can Book IRCTC E-Tickets Only Six Times A Month

As against the older system, where IRCTC website would allow passengers to book up to 10 e-tickets a month, from Monday passengers would be allowed a maximum of six tickets to be booked every month.This is done in order to prevent any touting activities and ease bookings for genuine users.

IRCTC Launches Mobile App To Provide Around 25 Varieties Of Customizable “Chai” On Trains

IRCTC will provide it’s customers 25 varieties of special flavoured tea, which can be further customized into 12000 varieties, such as “aam papad chai’ and ‘hari mirch chai’. IRCTC will be teaming up with tea cafe chain ‘Chaayos’ for this and offer customers 10% cashback on e-catering order over Rs 300.

After Foodpanda, IRCTC Partners With TravelKhana For E-catering

The services will soon be available on the IRCTC’s e-catering website. Travelers can also book their meals online from TravelKhana’s website. It will start its services at the New Delhi & Hazrat Nizammudin railway stations and will launch the services on a total of 17 stations in the first phase.

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