IRCTC Website To Book 7,200 Tickets Per Minute
With the aim of
bridging the gap between demand and supply in e-ticketing category, IRCTC on
Monday spelt out its grand plan to book 7,200 e-tickets per minute in the
current fiscal. Currently, the ticketing site of the IRCTC is able to handle
about 1.2 lakh concurrent connections on web servers and can book about 2,000
tickets per minute. It would cost about Rs. 100 crore to Railways for
strengthening the ticketing site. A power point presentation was made before
the Railway Minister about the plan to strengthen the website to enable it for
booking 7,200 tickets per minute, said a senior Railway Ministry official. Besides
Joshi, Railway Board Chairman Vinay Mittal and CRIS Managing Director Sunil
Kumar were also present. CRIS, the technical arm of railways, is involved in
the upgrading of the IRCTC website. The official said the upgrading of website
is a continuous process as an average booking per day has been increased from
3.67 lakh in 2012 to 4.15 lakh now. There are about 31 crore reserve tickets
being booked in a year out of which 55 percent tickets are sold through
windows. While 37 percent tickets are booked online, eight percent are being
booked by ticketing agents. Tendering process for upgrading of software and
strengthening of hardware is on as per the Rail Budget announcement, said the
official. Former Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal had announced in his Rail
Budget 2013-14 that the booking capacity will be enhanced to 7,200 tickets per
minute with the development of next generation software for the e-ticketing
site.
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