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Update Mobile Number inside IRCTC Next generation Website

So in the earlier tutorial, we told how important it is to have your mobile number properly updated because once you book the ticket through IRCTC next generation website, the train ticket & PNR Status details are sent to you via SMS. So if you while traveling, produce this SMS to the ticket collector, it sounds as good as a physical print. You don’t need to carry that but definitely it’s very important that you have the valid identity proof which may be the Passport or a Pan Cards or a Voter Card or a Driving license or may be a Central State or Public Sector Identity card or a College Identity card which has a photo attached to it. So those all are accepted forms of Identity proofs.

But in this tutorial, more of less we are just going to discuss, how to update your mobile number. You know some times you may have some mobile number inside IRCTC but over course of time, you mobile get stolen or you want to change your operator or the mobile number for some strange reasons and you decide to update this in IRCTC login and because every time you do a ticket, every time you have to change the mobile number to update to you new mobile number. So how to update the mobile number in such a way that every time you book a ticket you do not have to do that. It can be done by updating your profile details which we will see how to do article.

So just first put in your login details, You can see on the left hand side of this user interface, you have this Plan My Travel, Quick Book and Mumbai Season Ticket, My Transactions, User Profile. So just click on User Profile, that is small +/- sign, + Indicates that it will expand the tab full expand and here you can see you have options for Update Profile, Change Password, Master list of Passengers, Passenger Travel List, you just click on update profile. Here you need to enter your password again so click on go after do that. So, all your details are listed out, you can check here and you can see the mobile number, this is very important. If you have a new mobile which has different number of may be you have changed your number, just go and update this field and that’s pretty much it and you can just click on update button and you know the details will be updated. Put your right mobile number.

It will be  validating the codes and everything, so it searches for the Pin Code and validate, it takes a little while to make this happen, when the pin code has been validated and the state has automatically appeared, You will just select the City/District and everything remains the same and click on , you can see this red ribbon which states that the profile has been successfully updated.

So this is how you can update your details and now if you go and plan your by filling in details and booking a ticket or the ticket is send to the proper mobile number, the details which are inside your updated profile. I hope this has helped you people who are wondering on how to update their basic personal details inside IRTCT website. So it always good that you keep your profile most recently update with the most recent mobile numbers and address and everything. So when ever in future you want to change it or want certain changes you can always do that. 

Check IRCTC PNR status in Indian railways

Today we will be doing something which affects every Indian and this is checking your IRCTC PNR Status of rail ticket online. Well if you have booked the ticket then it’s very important to you to check your PNR status online in case of waiting list or something. When you book a train ticket, often it doesn’t come in the confirm category, like sometimes you may get waiting list, RAC Stuff like that RAC stand for Reservation against Cancellation, it obviously a dream value to want reserved tickets but this not always the case. So typically what you do is keep checking your status. So in case you have booked the tickets few months back, keep checking status, I think you are not allowed to book the tickets few months back but any ways what ever will the time be, you want to check the status and how do you do that. So lets go for some live example, so assume that you have an Indian Railways train ticket, Just copy the PNR Number and basically go to the site indianrail.gov.in, put it on the PNR Number, Put in this CAPTCHA image what you see here, click on status, There you go. We get the status of our ticket. Well you are really lucky if you get a confirmed ticket with IRCTC. People who may have booked tickets under waiting list and for them to see this getting confirmed, well trust me it means lot of them.

What is IRCTC PNR Status ??

This is “Personal Name Record”. It’s a 10 digit unique identification code for your train ticket. As Indian railways has passed its new regulations, now you just need to have your PNR Number with you and don’t need any printed physical ticket at all. It’s a good initiative by the GOVT of India and we welcome this.

So if this tutorial helps, please subscribe and send your queries. I will be happy to reply to your queries. And I guess the series of the tutorial is more or less for the Indian citizens, Voter Registration, Filing of ITR, and Booking of Tickets, Checking your Ticket Status, doing all this so that ordinary citizen’s ordinary residents get benefit of these processes. In case that makes sense, look forward to your love and appreciations.

How to Cancel IRCTC Ticket Online

How you can you cancel you IRCTC Tickets which has been booked earlier. If you have your own IRCTC next generation website login information, just enter the username or else click Register to log in to your account. After logging in, at the left side you can see my transactions link, expand it and you can see cancel e-ticket or refund button is there, click it. It will ask you to enter your password again, enter your IRCTC login password and click on go. It will list all the e-tickets which has been booked earlier, click on the particular e-ticket which you want to cancel, so the particular page will show you the number of peoples which are all booked for that particular ticket. If you want to cancel all the people, select all the peoples, or else if you want to cancel a particular person click on the particular person that you want to cancel from that particular ticket. Click cancel and confirm it. That’s it.

The ticket has been cancelled. Now the current status has been changed to CAN/MOD which means the ticket has been cancelled for that particular person. These are all the peoples which are currently presented in this ticket, so in order to check the status of the cancelled ticket, you can click again on cancel e-ticket/refund button and enter your password again, click on go. It will again list the available tickets. The IRCTC cancellation date and status has been shown here, the particular person has been cancelled. If you click on cancel e-ticket, you can see a confirmation dialog box, that’s it. It means the entire ticket will not be cancelled but the particular person from that ticket will only be cancelled and the amount which is to be refunded will available to your account to the account which you have used for booking the ticket. Some charges will be collected by the Indian Railways for the cancellation. You can see the cancelled ticket history from IRCTC PNR Status by clicking on cancelled history and enter your password again and click go, here you need to select the particular ticket form which you want to see the cancelled status. 

What is e-ticket & i-ticket in IRCTC

What is e-ticket, e-ticket is a ticket that you get as a electronic ticket that you can take a print out of the booked history and travel, i-ticket is a physical ticket, the ticket that you actually get while you go and book it in the railway station, the physical ticket you get. So e-ticket, you just book it, take a print and travel while i-ticket is like you book it, prior to some days, you guess it is prior to 3 days you need to book so you booked physical ticket can reach to you through the courier. you will always prefer an e-ticket, because you can just book it, take a print and you can travel and also you can show your IRCTC PNR Status in your mobile. Remember always whenever you are booking an e-ticket and traveling you must carry your identity proofs like Passport or a Pan Card or a Voter Card or a Driving license and there are certain other documents as well that can be used as a identity proof. Always carry that.

Book online ticket in IRCTC Next Generation website

Now it is very convenient to book and track PNR status of railway ticket, you did not have to go to railway station and stands in along queue, you can book a railway ticket by just sitting at home. So lets see the step by step process, how to book a railway ticket using IRCTC Website?

So the first step is, open up a browser and go to IRCTC link which is www.irctc.co.in ,in fill up your user name and your password then enter the captcha code shown below this, Hit login to book the railway ticket and if you do not have the username and password, please do signup and you can book a railway ticket after that. Just remember that while signing up, you should provide all your valid information so that your profile does not get de-activated after some time.

Now we are logged in to the website to book the ticket, you will see the interface here, you have a booking history, you have a print ticket here, you have a cancellation list here and there are other facilities like if you cancel your ticket you should get a refund and its status will be here, and for shubh yatra which is a new facility and this is about the TDR.

So lets see how to book a ticket, so here in the from list you need to type in the station name from where you want to start your journey, lets say you want to travel from Bangalore to Chennai, so what you will type is Bangalore, so once you type some words actually it will give a suggestion that which station you want. You can see it has been popped up the list, so now you want to select Bangalore City Junction and from there I want to travel till Chennai, so you know the code of Chennai which is MAS, so you just typed in and you can see that Chennai Central has been come up with MAS Code, it is just a matter of time you will come to know that what is the code of the station where you are traveling, so lets choose the station, your from is Bangalore and to is Chennai.

Now you want to choose a date, when you want to travel, lets say you want to travel on 25^th of May so you choose the date of 25^th of May, now here you have option of e-ticket and i-ticket,

We have prefer to book an e-ticket so you have chosen e-ticket, so here comes the quota field, where you can either choose General, Tatkal or Ladies, General is like any body can travel and Tatkal is like you want to book a Tatkal ticket, now you can just book Tatkal one day prior so for 25^th you can book a Tatkal on 24^th, so on 24^th morning you can try for a Tatkal for travel on the 25^th and this is for the ladies quota. So let’s take the general quota and click on link find trains.

So here you will find the list of the trains which is available from Bangalore to Chennai on the selected date, you can see all the classes has been seen here, what is available in that train and what is not available. For example lets say Shatabdi Express and Shatabdi have 1^st AC is available and Chair Car is available, only these two classes are available, lets see the availability and book the ticket, lets click what you want to travel in which class, if you want to travel in Chair Car, click on this radio button you will get the trains details and availability, the website is some times very slow because of more traffic, normally in the morning and the evening time, so it will take some time to load up, just relax for some time. Now you find that the train details is, this train goes from Bangalore to Chennai Central and the date and the days when it runs and the train number as well. So on this side you will find that what the availability status in the train is, click on book, so once you click on the link it will load up page where you need to fill the details. Now it gives you an option to enter the name of the passenger who want to travel, enter your details, you can choose your berth preference, then you can click on this consider for auto up gradation, when you consider for auto up gradation you have clicked that means if you are on a waiting list, then your auto up gradation might happen to a higher class as well. Let’s see if you have booked a ticket in sleeper and there are lot of seats which cancelled in the 3 tier AC, so you can get auto upgraded to 3 tier AC itself at that will be of no cost. After this, you need to fill the detail here, what ever text you can see here on the CAPTCHA. then you can go down and can say go, just wait for some time, now your reservation details have been come, the train name, the class you want to travel, date, from station, to station, the train number, the boarding point and reservation up to what under quota. And here also you can see what you have chosen, the name of the person, the age and the berth preference, everything has been chosen and here you can see how much fare you have to pay, the extra cost is 10 rupees which is a service charge so the total amount builds up including service charge.

Now click on link Make a Payment, wait for some time, so once the make a payment page comes up, you can see that you can pay through Credit Card, through Net Banking, through Debit Cards, through Cash Cards, through EMI options; there are multiple options through which you can pay. For example of Net Banking, you will choose ICICI Bank, just choose it and wait for some time, it will migrate to the payment page of ICICI Bank, so you can enter your USER ID and Password and make a payment, once you make a payment wait for some time, it will automatically redirect to the IRCTC webpage and your tickets will be booked.

After your tickets have booked, come to the home page, click on booking history, once you click on booking history, it will ask you to re-enter you password, re-enter your password say go, wait for some time, it will just load up, so now it will show the history of tickets that you have booked, Enter your IRCTC PNR Status and which ever ticket you want to take a print, click on that and then click on print E-ticket so that you can get the ticket printed. Carry the ticket with you along with the ID Proof and that’s it.

Here you booked the ticket. Hope this tutorial will helps you people. Please let us know your feedback or queries through comments box below.

IRCTC Reservation - Auto Fill Passenger List

Today I m discussing with you how to make it faster using auto fill the passengers list while booking your IRCTC tickets, so this is a feature provided by IRCTC next generation website itself, so you don’t have to install a plug-in or you don’t have to use a software for it. This will save you time while booking your tickets and this can make a difference between waiting list and RAC to a confirmed ticket, the time that is getting saved especially when you are booking Tatkal.

So you just need to log in to irctc.co.in through your web browser. Feed your login details and as I told you this is a feature provided by Indian Railways itself right now and you should be familiar with this interface.

Go to your user profile, click on user profile and you have an option called Master List of Passengers. you get these options like Master List of Passenger where you can create a Master List of passenger with a maximum of 6 names, you can add pretty much you family members, your self, your wife or spouse, your father mother brothers anybody. Click on add button, add your name and date of birth, so this date of birth will determine your age when you auto filling your passengers list when ever you are booking a ticket, Fill the sex and birth preference of course lower, food preference if you are book through Rajdhani or Shatabdi, if you are a senior citizen yet you have to manually fill in this data, Click on Add, your personal name comes in here, so most likely we are going to booking tickets for ourselves and not for somebody else,  so we can just fill in our personal names, family members names here.

You can make up to 6 entries and let me explain how we can use this while booking your tickets. Hit on plan my travel, fill in from with your source & destination, choose a date which has to be within 2 months away so that tickets are going to be available.

So this is the booking interface, select your desired Class here, if it is available 2 months away click on book now, so when you click on book now, you can see there this is the next page that you get when you booking your tickets, so here you have your travel list, select passengers from your master list, so click on it, this will use your profile data which ever family members you have entered in, so this will give you the same data, once you click on it, it will open a pop ups, if you want to enter every body here, you can just select on this all and append or add passengers, append means if you made already any more data and you have some other third person coming in, you have to fill in manually and after that when you want to add these two entries you can select append other wise you just click on both and add passenger.

If you want to choose just your self only, if you are alone traveling then just click on your name alone and click on add passenger, but in this dummy case click on all and click on add passenger here, as you can see it just automatically fill out the data, the name, age, female; as I said the age will be picked as per your date of birth and preference on berth and senior citizen is not selected because you did not put in your self as a senior citizen. Once this can fill out, you can just directly move on to next step on to making the payment online for the ticket booking. So this is an easy way, this is the feature that is provided by IRCTC itself so you need not worry about using software or using plug-ins like most of that people suggest to save time with the auto filling the passengers name list.

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