Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), which manages the online rail ticketing for the Indian Railways, has launched a new mobile ticketing website (in beta) which allows users to book tickets, check their booking history and cancel tickets. This is in addition to the existing Paymate, ngpay and atom applications. - Homepage: The mobile site is pretty basic and allows you to book tickets, check for available tickets on your preferred route, browse your previous booked history, and cancel tickets upon entering your IRCTC credentials at the start. - Ticket Booking: It allows you to check for available tickets based on source and destination, date of journey, classes of travel and quota (if any). Sadly, there is no autocomplete option in the site, so you will have to go through an extra step of obtaining station codes in case you are not familiar with it. Upon choosing your preferred train, you can add passengers and book tickets using your credit or debit card. That being said, the mobile site currently offers only Citibank as the payment option at the time of writing this article, and other payment options will be added later. Similar to e-ticket bookings, users will be charged the regular ticket fare along with IRCTC service charge and an agent service charge of Rs 10 for Sleeper class and Rs 20 for higher classes. After payment, you will get a text message with full details of your ticket including the PNR number, Train No., date of journey and class, which will be treated…
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