wordpress blog stats
Connect with us

Hi, what are you looking for?

, , ,

Why Is IRCTC Venturing Into E-Commerce?

The Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), which manages the online rail ticketing for the Indian Railways, plans to expand its offerings to books, footwear and mobile phones in future, reports The Hindu Businessline. The corporation claims that this might help IRCTC to monetize its registered user base of over 2 crore. The report also states that IRCTC will outsource the back end jobs for the expansion into retail space, which we are guessing might include logistics from warehousing to shipping of the products. The front end of the retail outlet will be however be owned by IRCTC. It has also invited bids from companies in the e-commerce space for building and managing the platform. Why eCommerce? IRCTC's plan to enter the ecommerce space doesn't even make sense. For starters, its online ticketing site is never able to handle the traffic load. It's slow and offers a terrible user experience to the customers. Why would IRCTC, instead of fixing these issues, venture into eCommerce? It should be noted that IRCTC also plans to to spend Rs 90-100 crore to increase transaction capacity of its website to support 72,000 tickets a minute, from the current level of 20,000 tickets a minute, but they've been talking about plans to improve their platform for over a year now, and it still sucks. Why not do the one thing they are supposed to do, and do it really well? Or at least get that to work before trying out other things. The only reason IRCTC has such a large user…

Please subscribe/login to read the full story.
Written By

Free Reads

News

With GPS in every car, India's toll collection is going high-tech.

News

Google is currently undergoing the necessary procedures for the leasehold land, which is presently under the ownership of the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation.

News

The pilot project for which is being launched in 19 cities this year, with a plan to launch a full-fledged rollout next year.

MediaNama’s mission is to help build a digital ecosystem which is open, fair, global and competitive.

Views

News

NPCI CEO Dilip Asbe recently said that what is not written in regulations is a no-go for fintech entities. But following this advice could...

News

Notably, Indus Appstore will allow app developers to use third-party billing systems for in-app billing without having to pay any commission to Indus, a...

News

The existing commission-based model, which companies like Uber and Ola have used for a long time and still stick to, has received criticism from...

News

Factors like Indus not charging developers any commission for in-app payments and antitrust orders issued by India's competition regulator against Google could contribute to...

News

Is open-sourcing of AI, and the use cases that come with it, a good starting point to discuss the responsibility and liability of AI?...

You May Also Like

News

Google has released a Google Travel Trends Report which states that branded budget hotel search queries grew 179% year over year (YOY) in India, in...

Advert

135 job openings in over 60 companies are listed at our free Digital and Mobile Job Board: If you’re looking for a job, or...

News

By Aroon Deep and Aditya Chunduru You’re reading it here first: Twitter has complied with government requests to censor 52 tweets that mostly criticised...

News

Rajesh Kumar* doesn’t have many enemies in life. But, Uber, for which he drives a cab everyday, is starting to look like one, he...

MediaNama is the premier source of information and analysis on Technology Policy in India. More about MediaNama, and contact information, here.

© 2008-2021 Mixed Bag Media Pvt. Ltd. Developed By PixelVJ

Subscribe to our daily newsletter
Name:*
Your email address:*
*
Please enter all required fields Click to hide
Correct invalid entries Click to hide

© 2008-2021 Mixed Bag Media Pvt. Ltd. Developed By PixelVJ