Tatkal Tickets can be booked instantly on Deepawali-Chhath, just try this trick
On Diwali and Chhath Puja, everyone wants to go home and celebrate the festival with family. Many people also book railway tickets months in advance for this. But, many people make plans at the last moment. Then they try to book Tatkal tickets. However, the number of Tatkal tickets is very limited. In such a situation, not everyone’s ticket gets booked.
If you keep some special things in mind while booking Tatkal tickets, then your booking can be done easily. Let’s know the trick to book Tatkal tickets.
Why is it difficult to book Tatkal tickets?
Train is the most preferred option of travel in India. Especially, if we talk about long distance travel. In such a situation, railway seats are limited, but the number of passengers increases. Therefore, on the busiest routes, bookings are full months in advance and there is a rush for Tatkal tickets.
Why Tatkal tickets are not booked?
Most people login as soon as the Tatkal window opens. They also have to face problems like the site not working or errors. Many times you complete the entire process, but the matter gets stuck at the payment point. By the time your issue is resolved, all the tickets are booked.
Trick to book Tatkal tickets
Tatkal booking in AC coach is done at 10 am and in sleeper at 11 am. Many people wait for 10 am to login. But, as soon as 10 o’clock, there is heavy traffic on the IRCTC site. To avoid this, you can adopt some tricks.
Always login to the IRCTC site 5 to 10 minutes before booking Tatkal tickets.
- Before booking Tatkal ticket, you can also create a master list by going to MyProfile.
- This saves the time of providing passenger’s name, age and gender along with other details.
- After the master list, a travel list has to be created, which is available within the master list itself.
- In this, details of the journey have to be given. Such as date of travel, from where to where, etc.
- After providing travel details, payment options of debit/credit card, internet banking and UPI are available.
- You can also use railway wallet, as other payment options take time to complete.
