Creating New IRCTC Account And Booking Tickets

Travelling in Railways is now hassle-free with all the online services that are provided by IRCTC which is a subsidiary of the Indian Railways. With one click, you can now not only book your tickets and make reservations but also check the train timings, ticket fares and train status. The process of doing this is very simple and all you would need to have is an IRCTC account. In this article, we would discuss about how you can easily create an IRCTC account to avail their different services and then book tickets online as well.

Creating An Online IRCTC Account

When you book tickets online, the first thing that you should definitely have is an IRCTC account. Creating that, you would be able to save a lot of time as you would not have to stand in a queue and also the service charges taken for booking tickets online from IRCTC is really very low. You would even be able to cancel tickets from the account. With so many benefits, let us see the procedure of creating a new account in IRCTC.

IRCTC basically has a one-time registration policy. You can directly go to the website and even some third party websites provides the link for registration. This is the most important stage and is very easy which can be done within a few minutes. You would have to enter all the valid and correct information wherever you are asked to do and then it would be done.

Step 1:  Go to the IRCTC official website www.irctc.co.in and you would be able to see their homepage.

Step 2:  There you would see a box asking for your ID and password, this is for the existing users. Just below that you would find the sign up option that you would need to click on it in order to create a new account.

Step 3:  This would redirect you to the registration form, where you would find different fields in which you would have to fill in your details and once you have done all of that, you would have to click on submit.

Step 4:  Once this has been done, in order to verify your account, the new ID and password would be sent to your registered e-mail address. A verification code would also be sent on your mobile number which would check its authenticity.

Step 5:  You would now have to enter the code that you have received on your mobile to authenticate and once that is done, click on submit.

That is all you would need to do, your new IRCTC account has now been created. You can now easily login there and enjoy all the services offered. The next time you wish to login to your account, just visit the official homepage, enter your credentials and you would be good to go.

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Booking Railway Tickets Online

Now that you have registered on the official IRCTC website, it would be really easy for you to book your railway travel tickets online. You can reserve berths and have confirmed hassle free journey. For that, you would need to first register on the official IRCTC website and if you already possess an account then read below for a complete step by step guide:

Step 1:  On the official IRCTC website, you would get an option of entering your account. Enter the correct ID, password and capcha code and then press on Login.

Step 2:  Once inside your account, you would get an option to book online tickets. Click on that and it would ask you for your current place and destination along with journey date and preferred travel class. Once you have done all that, click on search option.

Step 3:  There you would get all the available trains depending on your preferences. If there is no trains available on that date, there would be options available to modify your searches and change the date as well as the number of passengers. You can check the availability of seats on all the trains along with the fare.

Step 4:  Once you have researched about all that, you can then click on book so as to confirm the seats on your preferred train.