Indian Railway Ticket Reservation Through SMS
Posted by Sree Pillai on November 10th, 2006 under category SMS
Topics: India, Railway, Reservation, Ticket
Indian Railway offers online railway reservation through www.irctc.co.in (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited) web site. IRCTC also offers rail reservation through mobiles using Speech recognition, GPRS and CDMA technologies available on various mobile Operators. IRCTC also introduced the simplest way to book your Railway ticket using just two SMS messages (Short Messaging Service). This service is introduced with the following mobile operators across the India.
- IDEA Cellular - Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi & NCR
- MTNL /Delhi - Delhi & NCR
- Reliance Infocomm - All circles
- Other operators like BSNL, Hutch,MTNL-Mumbai and Tata Indicom will soon integration with Indian Railway for SMS booking.
How to Book Tickets using SMS
In order to book rail tickets using SMS, the following are a must:
- The user needs to be registered with www.irctc.co.in and opted to use the mobile reservation services.
- User should have created at least one “Passenger List” in his profile registered with IRCTC. This list will be used for the SMS booking process.
- The customer has to be registered for the Mobile Banking services of ICICI Bank (Other banks will be integrated soon)
- The user must have a mobile connection with any one of the operators listed above (more operators are also being added.)
- The entire process of “book ticket” can be done through two SMS messages, using IRCTC’s short code 7245
How to Register?
You need to sign up in www.irctc.co.in in order to avail this service. The User has to select “mobile booking” option in the profile / registration page to avail all types of Mobile Booking facilities including SMS booking. The user needs to input mobile number, mobile operator, and preferred payment option (At present ICICI Bank only). ICICI Bank will be charging Rs 10 for this service for each booking. You will need to be registered to the “Mobile Shopping Service” provided by ICICI Bank and enter the ‘mShop Name’ through SMS.
For more details please visit IRCTC Mobile Booking web page.
Service Provided Operators
RELIANCE
- PNR Alert Service on 7245
- Ticket Reservation through R-World( Payment through Credit Cards)
- SMS Booking on 7245
IDEA
- PNR Alert Service on 7245
- Voice Based Ticket Reservation on 456( Payment through Credit Cards)
- SMS Booking on 7245
MTNL Delhi
- PNR Alert Service on 7245
- SMS Booking on 7245
MTNL Mumbai
- PNR Alert Service on 7245
HUTCH
- PNR Alert Service on 7245
- Voice Based Ticket Reservation on 123( Payment through Credit Cards)
- GPRS Based Ticket Reservation( Payment through Credit Cards)
TATA INDICOM
- PNR Alert Service on 7245
- Voice Based Ticket Reservation on 12900( Payment through Credit Cards)
AIRTEL
- PNR Alert Service on 7245
Already registered users of www.irctc.co.in can use their existing user id and password to log in and transact through Hutch / Idea/ Tata Indicom / Reliance handsets.
First time users can avail the registration facility offered by the mobile operator or visit www.irctc.co.in and use the normal registration form.
- Booking through Voice Based Process- Hutch, Idea and Tata Indicom
- Booking through CDMA phones - Reliance
- IRCTC Mobile Booking web page
Author Email: sree@teck.in
I really doubt how much prompt this service is going to be.
hmm.. don’t know. I never tried it.
Sree m a design student at iitb and it was good to view this space ….my project is on Booking IR tickets through Mobile Phones….if you can provide me some more information I,ll be realy grateful to you….I’ll be waitin for your reply…my email id is atishpatel06@gmail.com
Good innovation… but will b more better if the sms charges are normal.
Aashish
Very Nice Article.
There is also one more good site for Railway reservation at http://www.railwayreservation.co.in
iv would like know procedure of pnr status on mobile and charges
Sir
I want to start E-ticking facitily to custumers. how i can register with u. I have internet connectin & basic intrastucture for it
please guide me
thanks
regards
purushottam dass matta
hi irctc.co.in is the best site for booking online tickets.
so everyone go through that site.
wish u good luck.
Have a nice day.
how to go for rail reservation through mail?
this is bad service in a whole world
http://www.indiantrains.org/
I have not seen such a good site which has so many features in a single page. The better way to search Indian trains looks great and it open fast, no pop-up, user friendly. Every information in a single page. This concept is good and some of the features like calendar, train running day has not come in a single website in this reviews. the most important features i have seen in this site that if the user does not know the station code then also he can see all the trains and it is only website which have a drop menu box for the important station from where you can choose the station name and also it has a date calendar from you can choose the date and it show the running day of the train so that you can know which day of the week this train is running. the other most important feature I have seen in this website that it show the train which does not have the reservation coach for the benefit of the user and they are showing the passenger train also which is also not available in any website. This site will enable the users to search train route and compare fares of most of the trains in India.