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 25th of May
so you choose the date of 25th 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 25th you can book a Tatkal on 24th,
so on 24th morning you can try for a Tatkal for travel on the 25th
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 1st 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.
