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Is IRCTC shutting its e-commerce store?

Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation’s (IRCTC) seems to have silently shut down its e-commerce platform, reports NextBigWhat. It mentions that the site has been down for the past couple of days, and all its contact channels are non-functional. At the time of writing this article, the site is down for maintenance and we're getting a "page not found" error for all category and product pages. We've written to IRCTC for a confirmation and will update once we hear back. We also tried calling Yebhi co-founder and CEO Manmohan Agarwal but there was no response. We’ll update in case we hear back from them. New Partners? It's worth noting that IRCTC had launched this e-commerce venture with Yebhi in August last year and it's possible that IRCTC has not renewed its contract with Yebhi. Earlier in March, IRCTC Joint GM (Portal) Sunil Kumar had told YourStory that their agreement with Yebhi will end this year, following which they may float a fresh tender. He had declined to comment on whether they plan to renew the existing contract with Yebhi or not, although the publication had cited sources to suggest that IRCTC was looking at new partners for this initiative and it was expected to float a new tender by the end of April. However, we weren't able to find any relevant tender at the time of writing this article. IRCTC had initially stated plans to enter the e-commerce segment in March last year and had floating a tender to shortlist a white label solution provider in the same month. The organization had selected Yebhi to manage this platform that…

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