In olden days, people used to go to their nearest Railway station to find out their PNR status, which was very time consuming and frustrating for many of us that needs a lot of effort. Later, when web technology moved to next level, Indian Railways had introduced online ticket reservation system. And wait listing status updates every time when a user cancels his ticket during that period. So that users can find out their ticket PNR status online from any computer.
Now-a- days web technology has many new features for train users to facilitate online ticket reservation system.
Now users can book a ticket online by registering at IRCTC website for free. Any registered user can book a ticket from anywhere in India to anywhere in India online by using his debit card or credit card via netbanking facility provided by IRCTC.
Something went wrong and you need to cancel your ticket? This is also very easy, just go to booking history and enter your profile password, select the ticket you want to cancel and click cancel. Your ticket will be cancelled.
But these features make it very easy to book a ticket in advance and cancel it if you cancel your journey.
Any user who registered at IRCTC and verified his account, can book a ticket in 3 months advance. But this featured was abused by many folks that lead to other problems in online reservation. That is the reason, later this time period reduced to 2 months/60 days.
Another major problem now a days almost everyone who uses IRCTC was facing is, PNR status. Users often book a ticket in waiting list hoping for the confirmation. But no one knows whether the ticket will be confirmed or not. However there are some ways to find out the ticket prediction using online tools. But you should know about these tools and the algorithms they used to predict the pnr status. I think pnr status prediction needs a dedicated post to explain it completely. I will cover it in my next post.
Let me show you some better ways to find Pnr status that makes your life easier. MyPNRStatusCheck.in
There is no doubt that you can check your IRTC ticket PNR Status online from IRCTC official website, but, let me show you why you shouldn’t use the official site for checking your Pnr status.
Reason 1:
When you search for pnr status in Google, Indian Rail website comes up first in Google search results. So many users will go there to check their pnr status, which increases the server load heavily. This is the reason Indian rail official site often goes down or opens slowly. We are well aware of IRCTC website speed while booking a ticket. After 5 long years, recently IRCTC had changed its website design with little improvement in site speed compared to old one.
Reason 2:
Indian Rail website uses captcha verification to prevent the spam. It is mandatory to fill the captcha correctly for every user to get their pnr status. This makes it a bit difficult, because most of the times users can’t fill correct captcha because of the new captcha system, which confuses the user and he can’t make out the captcha. The background of the captcha filled with random lines and other dust which makes it difficult and annoying for most users. This is where users need to spend lot of time and be patient to bare with captcha and site speed. Also other features on the site takes lot of server resources such as bandwith, these are the factors that potentially slow down the site compared to a site that has only PNR status feature and simple design.
Want to know faster site without captcha for checking your PNR status? Here is the one MyPNRStatusCheck.in
