What is Ladies Quota on IRCTC, how does it work?

• 6 Sleeper Class Berth will be reserved /available under this quota.

• Please Note that children below the age of 12 are not allowed to travel independently. An affidavit to the railways is required by the parent on the same subject. So ladies below the age of 12 will not be allowed under this quota unless an affidavit is issued by her guardian/parent.

• TTE is instructed to pay attention to this quota, so its lot more safer.

• Pregnant women or women above 45 years of age travelling alone will be issued a lower berth ( normally TTE issues the same on request, and co-passengers are also generous)

• Accommodation is also available/reserved to Ladies in Unreserved Coaches in Mail/Express trains.

• Its is extended to separate compartment/coaches in sub-urban trains

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How can I change my name on an online-booked IRCTC railway ticket?

first of all any online train booked ticket is not transferable.This has been made to prevent possible misuse of facility by the agents and brokers.

However, if reasonable case should arise, following provisions has been made:

(both for online/counter and offline/counter ticket)

Chief Reservation Supervisor of important stations are authorized by Railway Administration to permit the change of name of a passenger having a seat or berth reserved in his name in the following circumstances namely :

(a) Where the passenger is a Government Servant, proceeding on duty and appropriate authority, makes a request in writing 24 hours before the scheduled departure of trains

(b) Where the passenger makes a request in writing 24 hours before the scheduled departure of the train that the reservation made in his name may be transferred to another member of his family, meaning, Father, Mother, Brother, Sister, Son, Daughter, Husband and Wife.

(c) Where the passengers are students of a recognized educational institution and the Head of the institution makes a request in writing 48 hours before the scheduled departure of the train, that the reservation made in the name of any student be transferred to any other student of the same institute.

(d) Where the passengers are members of a marriage party and any person deemed to be Head of such party makes a request in writing 48 hours before the scheduled departure of the train that the reservation made in the name of any member of the marriage party be transferred to any other person.

(e) Where the passengers are a group of cadets of National Cadet Corps (NCC) and any officer who is the head of the group, makes a request in writing at least 24 hours before the departure of the train that the reservation made in the name of any cadet be transferred to any other cadet.

Such request will be granted only once. Regarding item no. (c), (d) and (e), such request for change in excess of 10% of the total strength of group shall not be granted.

Notice:

Above rules can be found on http://www.indianrail.gov.in/change_Name.html

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Tricks to keep the session alive in IRCTC

• Log into your IRCTC account by around 10:55 AM IRCTC Time. Keep maintain your session alive till 10:58AM. Then proceed to "Plan My Travel" Page. Fill in the journey details, choose quota as Tatkal. And the moment the IRCTC clock ticks 10:00, click submit. 

• There is a common misconception that you are not supposed to use Refresh or back button during the ticket reservation process. This is partially true. You may use the Refresh button Until the payment page of IRCTC. Till then, using a refresh button would save you some time.

• Try to use the payment method which doesn’t have captcha(security) and requires least no of pages to be opened.

• Try prefer BHIM UPI and Phonepe upi app which are pretty fast to get me tickets most of the time.

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How to book more than 6 tickets in IRCTC

Now IRCTC users are permitted to book tickets upto 12 in a month, if users get themselves verified through
their Aadhaar number along with at least one passenger also being verified through Aadhaar.
 Aadhaar Verification not required for booking up to 6 tickets in a month.
 Users can book upto 6 tickets (without Aadhaar) in a month continues as earlier.

 Steps to avail the facility of booking more than 6 tickets and up to 12 tickets in a   month

•  Under My Profile section,IRCTC Registered User is required to verify their aadhaar details       using Aadhaar KYC option.

•  User’s Aadhaar details will be verified through sending an OTP on his mobile number which is linked with aadhaar. On successful verification of OTP, user will become verified.

•  At least One (1) passenger on the ticket being booked, beyond 6 tickets in a month, should also be Aadhaar verified.

•  Users are required to verify the probable passengers through their respective Aadhaar card  number and store the verified passengers in passenger master list. This should be done before starting the ticket booking, beyond 6 tickets in a month.

•  User can also add Aadhaar verified passenger from master list at the time of booking to book additional tickets upto 12 tickets per month.

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Sleeper coach journey without reservation on train

Every time it is not possible to get train reservation tickets. Particularly, in festive and summer seasons. Booking a ticket for the train is hard. Most of the people don't know the difference between online reservation ticket and booking at reservation counter. There are some advantages over the e-ticketing for the reservations at the station. By just following this trick, you will have the journey on any sleeper coach without reservation.

Journey in sleeper coach without Reservation

1. Open IRCTC website check trains for your journey route.
2. Select your convenient train from the listed trains and check for seat availability.
3. If that has waiting list tickets, then book on online and go to nearest reservation counter.
4. Take the reservation form and fill the journey details along with train name and number which you prefer.
5. Submit your form and get waiting list ticket with any number (waiting list size doesn't matter).
6. As per Indian Railways, online booked waiting list tickets will be canceled once chart got prepared.But counter ticket advantage is it is valid for your sleeper coach journey.Counter ticket can't be canceled anymore.
7. With this simple trick, you can travel in sleeper coach without any reservation ticket.

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