You may not be able to book your rail tickets without Aadhaar in near future

You soon will be needing your Aadhaar card for booking rail tickets on IRCTC's website, claimed a Mumbai Mirror report. According to the publication, if the recommendation of a new railway report will be implemented then a customer will have to submit their Aadhaar card number in order to confirm the tickets. 

According to the newspaper, Senior officials on Monday from the Centre for Information Railway System (CRIS), Delhi, reached Mumbai to interrogate the main suspect behind one of the biggest railway ticket rackets that had been emerged recently. 

Railway officials had arrested Khan on May 2 and seized over 6,000 e-tickets (PNR numbers) valued at roughly Rs 1.5 crore from him, the report stated.

The suspect allegdly operated a network of 5,400 agents across the country, and charged Rs 700 per month from each to use his booking software. Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) and Central Railway (CR) officers were also present during the questioning, the report added. 

Meanwhile, IRCTC launched a new method for booking rail tickets including Tatkal tickets. Taking advantage of the new service, IRCTC e-wallet users can now book rail e-tickets including Tatkal quota tickets through its mobile android app, IRCTC Rail Connect. 

IRCTC e-wallet is a mode of payment which enables users to deposit money in advance with IRCTC. Below we have explained the way to pay for e-tickets via IRCTC e-wallet. 

1. First the user needs to register them at IRCTC e-wallet facility through IRCTC website. According to IRCTC, a user can have a maximum of six banks in his or her preference list. 

2. Passengers can book tickets by selecting IRCTC's e-wallet service while making payments.

Earlier on April 5, the IRCTC recently introduced new rules of booking Tatkal tickets or tickets that are booked at the last minute by those who want to travel on an urgent basis.  

How to book e-ticket? 

Register by filling the required fields. Login by entering your user name and password.The "Plan my travel" page appears.If the From/To station selected by you are correct in the route of the train then :Select e-Ticket option.