Indian Railway has now made the IRCTC
train reservation charts public! In a big step aimed
at ensuring greater transparency and eliminating on ground corruption, Piyush
Goyal-led Indian Railways has today made the reservation charts for all trains
public on the IRCTC website: irctc.co.in.
Indian Railways says that the new step will help prospective passengers
get information of any vacant berths that are available in the train after
chart preparation. The information will be made available after preparation of
the first chart around 4 hours before the departure of the train and the second
chart will be available around 30 minutes before the train leaves the
originating station. The second chart will accommodate changes based on current
reservations and any cancellations made after the first chart.
The new feature will be available on both the web and mobile version of
the IRCTC e-ticket booking platform. Based on the information of seat
availability, passengers will be able to approach the TTE on board for ticket
booking as well, says Indian Railways. The new interface gives graphical
representation of the train coaches along with berth-wise accommodation status
on the irctc.co.in website. The layout of 9 classes of coaches will be
displayed.
The most important takeaway for passengers is that TTEs will not be able to deny berths on ad-hoc basis. Additionally,
passengers will have the facility to view the exact position of the berth
allocated to a PNR in the graphical coach layout during PNR enquiry.
Here is how you can check reservation
charts on IRCTC website:
1. On the IRCTC website, a new option of view “Charts/Vacancy” is being
made available.
2. The train journey details such as train number, journey date and
boarding station will be required as an input from the user and after that the
class-wise and coach-wise number of vacant berths can be seen.
3. The user can also click on a specific coach to see the layout along
with berth-wise accommodation status such as; occupied for full journey,
occupied for part journey and vacant for full journey.
4. The position of berth allocated to a PNR in the coach layout can be
seen in PNR Enquiry & book ticket history.
Credit - Financial Express
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