The national transporter has also urged the media to refrain from publishing or circulating such unfounded reports.
Indian Railways passengers, take a note! The Railway Ministry has created clarification for reports on fare hike in passenger trains. Recently, some baseless claims had been created by particular sections of the media about the possibility of a hike in passenger train fares. The national transporter has rebuffed these false news reports on the train fare hike possibility. According to an All India Radio (AIR) report, Piyush Goyal-led Indian Railways had mentioned that there is no factual basis on these reports and at present, any proposal to enhance the fare of passenger trains is not beneath consideration. Moreover, the national transporter has also requested the media to refrain from publishing or circulating such unfounded reports.
A couple of days ago, the Railway Minister inaugurated the revamped e-ticketing IRCTC web site. Within a week of the upgraded e-ticketing website’s launch, it has witnessed a 12 per cent enhance in the quantity of web page views as effectively as a 37 per cent improvement in its response time, according to a PTI report. The newly upgraded web site and mobile app of IRCTC have user-personalization attributes linked to user log-in. Also, it boasts other facilities for customization, presents one particular-cease train choice for ticket booking along with integrated booking for accommodation as effectively as meals with tickets. The revamped IRCTC net portal was introduced on 31 December 2020.
An official was quoted in the report saying that the upgraded e-ticketing web site has decreased the quantity of clicks for the IRCTC user whilst checking the availability of tickets by giving all essential facts on a single web page. For checking the availability of tickets, the revamped web site has resulted in the elimination of the will need for almost twenty clicks. Earlier, the availability of train seats and fares could be only noticed by the user just after clicking on that train individually, which was about twenty more clicks per ticket booking. Also, each and every click by the user used to fetch information from the method, placing more load on the IRCTC web site. The official added, the new web site shops and displays all data about the availability and fares of tickets for all trains on the train search web page.