Indian Railway to restrict a user to book only six tickets per month in both e-ticket/i-ticket. This new rule has been introduced to avoid further misuses.
The new provision will come into effect from 15th February, 2016, replacing the earlier provision of 10 tickets per user for per month through IRCTC online for both e-ticket/i-tickets.
Moreover, conditions on Tatkal booking systems will also be subject to a limit of booking 2 opening Tatkal tickets in 10:00- 12:00 hours period in a day and 2 opening Advance Reservation Period (ARP) tickets in 08:00-10:00 hours period in a day.
Quick Book Option is disabled from 08 am to 12 noon.
All types of ticketing agents (YTSK, RTSA, IRCTC agents etc.) have been debarred from booking tickets during the first thirty minutes of opening of booking i.e. from 08 am to 08:30 am for general bookings, and from 10 am to 10:30 am and 11:00 am to 11:30 am for Tatkal booking in AC and non-AC classes respectively.
The decision comes after conducting an analysis that says only 10 per cent of the total booking more than 6 tickets. Remaining 90 per cent of users book maximum 6 tickets per month. With a suspicion over the remaining 10 per cent might be involved in touting, the ministry decided to go on a restricted mode by giving more space to genuine users.
