IRCTC website to book 7,200 tickets per minute soon
Posted on: 28/May/2013 2:07:34 PM
IRCTC has spelt out its grand plan to book 7,200 e-tickets per minute With the aim of bridging the gap between demand and supply in e-ticketing category.
Currently, the ticketing site of the IRCTC is able to handle about 1.2 lakh concurrent connections on web servers and can book about 2000 tickets per minute.
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 per cent tickets are sold through windows. While 37 per cent tickets are booked online, eight per cent 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.
