IRCTC Next-Gen Website: Those who booked Tatkal tickets got silver! New superfast website of Indian Railways is coming soon, know 5 big changes

IRCTC Next-Gen Website: If you have ever booked a train ticket online, you must have faced slow loading speed, frequent pop-ups of annoying advertisements, long captcha codes and a confusing booking process with multiple steps. Every second counts, especially during ‘Tatkal Ticket’ booking at 10 and 11 in the morning, where seats get filled at the slightest delay. To overcome this big problem of passengers, Indian Railways is now bringing a new, very modern and superfast version of IRCTC website. Beta version of the new website will be launched soon. Railway Ministry is preparing to launch the beta version of the new website of IRCTC for the general public very soon. The main objective of this upgrade is to double the speed of ticket booking and make the entire interface user-friendly. Before officially going live for common passengers, the new website was successfully demonstrated to the students of Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur. During this, top officials of IRCTC and Center for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) also took feedback from the youth, so that the shortcomings could be rectified in advance. There will be direct integration with the Passenger Reservation System (PRS). The biggest strength of this new website will be its backend system. It is being directly linked to the Passenger Reservation System (PRS) of Indian Railways, which is the main core system for railway ticket management across the country. Once this direct integration with PRS is completed, technical disruptions like server down time or payment failure will be virtually eliminated and passengers will get a very smooth booking experience without any buffering. These 5 big changes will be seen in the new website of IRCTC. Freedom from unnecessary advertisements and pop-ups: The homepage of the new website will be very clean and simple. To speed up ticketing, unnecessary pop-up advertisements, heavy flashy graphics and recurring irritating Captchas will be removed, saving precious seconds for passengers during instant booking. Seats of all classes will be visible together: Currently, passengers have to click on each class separately to see the availability of Sleeper, Third AC (3AC) or Second AC (2AC). But in the new website, the seat availability of all available classes will be visible together on a single screen, which will make comparison easier. Less screens and minimal clicks: Now passengers will not have to go through many screens and forms to book tickets. According to reports, the entire booking has been condensed into ‘minimum clicks’, due to which the ticket will be generated in a few seconds. Option to save family details: The Master List feature has been further advanced for passengers who frequently book tickets for their family or friends. Passengers will be able to permanently save the information of their family members (name, age, birth preference) in advance, so that time is not wasted in re-typing at the time of booking. Preparation to launch in July: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav has already made a big announcement that the new modern IRCTC website will be launched before the country in the month of July itself. Currently its beta trial is in the final stages and in the next few months it will be completely rolled out for everyone.