IRCTC CoD (Cash On Delivery) Facility Enabled - Extra Charges Applicable

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  Koushal Patel

  I don't know who are the target audience. This move from railway is not required at all.
  
  They should address some other existing issues like - IRCTC food quality, toilets in trains, Mobile charging devices broken. I strongly believe, there should be a facility of drinking water inside the coach as well. Have you seen rush in summer days for water at the stations where the train halts for less than 2-3 minutes!, its horrible. For the persons who sits in side upper seats and Upper and middle as well, to get down from seats to see which station it is at night, there should be an information system deployed in the boggie. There should be strict system to stop public loiter the stations. We are also living in 21st century where trains in Bihar and other places too are being looted, girls being misbehaved.
  
  First concern should be to make the existing things work smoothly - After that any new system should be implemented.
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  Koushal Patel

  I find the idea of sending tickets on COD as -
  Do not pay attentions towards the schools which do not have a toilet for girl child, no standard faculty for students in schools, colleges and universities, fake campus placement.. And make new notifications of opening new schools! 😔
  
  We people can go ahead doing our bit for betterment of the society, but there are some issues, which can not be entertained unless our Government makes a good note of this!
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  Ankita Katdare

  I think this is a brilliant move. 😀 If IRCTC users mark CoD as their mode of payment, the time required to book the tickets will be significantly reduced and thus IRCTC could work better/faster in those over-crowded Tatkal hours. Those choosing CoD can book faster and go off the site and make way for other users. I hope the user experience will be improved by a lot in the days to come. It's high time something was done about this.
  
  I personally wish for a 'seatmap display' feature on IRCTC to be seen for bookings made online as well as via ticket counters. This will be very beneficial for passengers as they can pick the seat(s)/berth(s) of their choice and also view the seating layout of the particular coach/train they intend to travel in. If airlines can give their passengers their choice of seats, why not Indian Railways?
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  Anoop Kumar

  Ankita Katdare

  the time required to book the tickets will be significantly reduced and thus IRCTC could work better/faster in those over-crowded Tatkal hours.

  But COD / hard copy tickets never been applicable for Tatkal. How can they deliver ticket in 1 day 😉.
  My view, this is totally backward move. In current system you can give anyone's cell phone number, even forwarded messages are acceptable. All you just have to have a valid proof. Even if you thing about old people who don't know how to operate mobile phone, TTE's are happy to operate themselves. (My gradma travelled self without any problem. She don't know SMS operation or English language.)
  

  Koushal Patel

  Government makes a good note of this!

  I have doubt this move is from government. BookMytrain is a venture of Anduril Technologies .
  Edit: Also IRCTC CRIS is a autonomous body. They are like railway contractor to manage on-line things.
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  Ankita Katdare

  Anoop Kumar

  How can they deliver ticket in 1 day 😉.

  No one day delivery? 😲 Isn't that super sad? Why you no follow Flipkart/Amazon model? If you are finally launching it, why not bring it with a bang. We all know how crucial Tatkal is. Let's see. May be they will roll out the feature to Tatkal eventually.
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  Koushal Patel

  Anoop Kumar

  I have doubt this move is from government. BookMytrain is a venture of Anduril Technologies .
  Edit: Also IRCTC is a autonomous body. They are like railway contractor to manage on-line things.

  Anoop Kumar

  I have doubt this move is from government. BookMytrain is a venture of Anduril Technologies .
  Edit: Also IRCTC is a autonomous body. They are like railway contractor to manage on-line things.

  How can you say that its not Government's move. You can not expect a single move in Railways without government's approval boss. It is the system of deploying a whole new system. Government has approved the move, no doubt for sure!
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  Koushal Patel

  Ankita Katdare

  I think this is a brilliant move. 😀

  Yeah, it is a brilliant move for those you mentioned in the comment. There are some pros and cons about this system.
  Pros as you said, and cons may be -
  1. What if someone has faked the system - Any punishment for that? Who to be blamed? Why to spend money to track and catch the culprit?
  2. If someone wants to cancel the ticket then? Will the system update that ASAP.
  
  @Anyone, Please let me hear, what the exact process of booking is? Is it through Phone, lappy?
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  Vikram S Bargah

  Customers can book a ticket 5 days prior to commencement of journey.
  
  There are huge changes taking place in railways working which one can in recent days.
  
  

  Koushal Patel

  IRCTC food quality

  IRCTC has also launced a pilot project to book meals on wheels online through irctc website. though this project is launched initially just for those trains which did not had pantrycars (i.e. Weekely Trains)
  
  

  Koushal Patel

  there should be an information system deployed in the boggie

  Indian railways has stared deploying audio speakers in Some Premium trains like Shatabdi , Rajdhani which tells passangers about upcoming station & halting time & welcoming new passangers onboard . though this facility is not applicable during night hours.
  
  Indian railways has also put a notice on premium trains asking passangers to use charging ports during specific hours only as during night hours those ports will be disabled.
  
  It takes time for a complete change. & we can feel some differences too .(like the online tatkal booking)
  
  P.S.:
  India's first CNG train for the Rewari-Rohtak section has been launched which will run on dual fuel i.e CNG & Diesel.
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  Koushal Patel

  Vikram S Bargah

  P.S.:
  India's first CNG train for the Rewari-Rohtak section has been launched which will run on dual fuel i.e CNG & Diesel.

  Good Move
  
  

  Vikram S Bargah

  Indian railways has also put a notice on premium trains asking passangers to use charging ports during specific hours only as during night hours those ports will be disabled.

  I was talking about the broken devices for recharging the cellphones my friend!
  
  

  Vikram S Bargah

  though this facility is not applicable during night hours.

  This is main issue for passengers like me! If I feel really very tired, I ask the person who brings the pillows and other thing to wake me up at a particular time. But it s quite risky! "It is not a good practice to share more than required information in Railways with any one."
  
  Can you please share your thoughts why the meals provided in railways are so costly. I mean, you will have to spend 80 Rs for a simple meal?
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  Anoop Kumar

  Koushal Patel

  How can you say that its not Government's move.

  Because, IRCTC (By CRIS) sells flight tickets, few days ago they started a E-commerce website (I can't find that portal). Why govt. would even bother about it. (Not sure thought about cab booking). No information on Indianrail.gov.in (official railway website, I might be wrong because this is always outdated site.)
  I am not 100% but definitely 95%+ sure it's not from govt.
  These COD ticket are known as I-ticket. You book the ticket they will deliver you by post. Now it will add facility be COD.
  #-Link-Snipped-# : Amount will be credited to your account. I guess like wallet.
  
  PS: Let's stick to COD though only. We all know facilities sucks in trains.
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  Koushal Patel

  Anoop Kumar

  Because, IRCTC (By CRIS) sells flight tickets, few days ago they started a E-commerce website (I can't find that portal). Why govt. would even bother about it. (Not sure thought about cab booking). No information on Indianrail.gov.in (official railway website, I might be wrong because this is always outdated site.)
  I am not 100% but definitely 95%+ sure it's not from govt.

  See my friend, For each and every thing, these companies require Government's approval. If someone wants to deploy a system, I don't believe, they can go ahead proposing directly to the Railways. As you might be knowing, there are tender openings for everything. So, I guess, COD is not exception.
  
  Few days back, I was travelling from my home state Odisha towards Mumbai, and found few students from Some Engineering Colleges were on-boarded. They were doing some survey on a day time about the food quality and some other proposed methods. Some of the officials from IRCTC came and started shouting at them, asking who the hell gave you the permission to do such things here. In return, they showed necessary approval documents from Kolkata Railway division and their college Principal.
  
  Railway officials are nothing but the govt authority who gives the rights to do lawful desired things. From this point, I can argue that, none of the affiliated company can not do anything of their own without the intervention of the Indian Railway officials.
  
  Hence the point I want to make is - Requesting Railways to address the existing necessary general requirements/issues like clean toilets for passengers, Cleanliness in Railway stations (Yes, I must say, this can not be done without public support), providing drinking water in the railway coaches itself, providing enough securities. There are some stations even in district headquarters where people find themselves insecure due to lack of security forces.
  
  I am not against any innovation, implementation of new things, but for the time being, there are more critical issues which need more attention from Railways than to provide COD.
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  Vikram S Bargah

  Koushal Patel

  why the meals provided in railways are so costly

  These Price are decided by Indian railways after Selecting the lowest bidding process.
  You can get the latest catering tariffs #-Link-Snipped-#
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  Vikram S Bargah

  Vikram S Bargah

  though this facility is not applicable during night hours.

  Because Indian Railways do not want to disturb every passengers who are taking full benefits of railway mattress & berth 😀.
  
  A Passenger is Himself responsible if he has reached to next station during night hours.
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  Vikram S Bargah

  Anoop Kumar

  IRCTC (By CRIS)

  IRCTC is Goverment of India Enterprise Under Ministry Of Railways . You can get the Flight booking & Cab Facilities in its #-Link-Snipped-# itself. Though Cab facilities are available only for Premium train customers . & can be booked only once you have booked the seat in specific trains.
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  Vikram S Bargah

  Koushal Patel

  clean toilets for passengers

  Indian Railways is well versed with the issues faced by the passangers & has already started taking initiatives in most of the areas as pilot projects to check its feasibility.
  Some trains Like Sampark Kranti & saptkranti have persons deployed onboard to clean the toilets & coach while its moving.
  I Think We should praise the initiatives taken by the respective authorities & give them some time to get it implemented on a mass scale.