How to Book Train Tickets With IRCTC Using SMS

Our authorities goes more and more digital and with cell penetration and variety of smartphone customers in India skyrocketing, it is getting simpler than ever to do issues on-line or by way of our telephones. The catch is that most individuals do not really know you are able to do all this so simply – and that is why we are attempting to assist our readers discover out about completely different authorities companies that are actually on-line, and exhibiting you the way to use them.

This week, we take a look at how to e-book a prepare ticket from IRCTC by way of SMS. The Indian Railways’ IRCTC web site is the supply of frustration for thus many individuals that nobody bats an eyelid when the location would not work correctly, though latest updates have improved issues a bit of. If you are attempting to e-book a ticket on the web site, however discover that the portal is down or in case your Internet is down, you’ll be able to simply e-book tickets offline. No, we do not imply that you’ve got to go to the closest railway station to e-book a ticket, however reserving tickets by way of SMS. Booking by way of textual content message is hassle-free, however know that your service will cost you for every SMS you ship. We had been charged Rs. 3 per SMS once we tried reserving tickets by way of SMS, however that is a small value to pay for the comfort. Here’s how to do it.

1. The very first thing you want is an IRCTC account. You can create it here. Make certain that the cellphone quantity you register with IRCTC matches the cellphone quantity that your financial institution has, in any other case this is not going to work.

2. You additionally want to examine in case your financial institution helps IMPS (Immediate Payment Service). If you may have an ICICI Bank account then you do not want IMPS, and might leap to step 8. You can examine in case your financial institution helps IMPS here. You will want IMPS to authorise funds by way of SMS.

3. If your financial institution helps IMPS (nearly all banks do), then you definately’ll want to name them to generate an MMID or do it on the financial institution web site. This course of varies by the financial institution, so we advise you examine it together with your financial institution. As an instance, HDFC Bank’s course of is described here.

4. Note down the MMID and the one-time password (OTP) despatched by the financial institution.

5. Now you are prepared to e-book your ticket. You want to ship a textual content message to 139. The format of the message must be *BOOK *.
   You can e-book tickets for up to six passengers per ticket. For instance, our SMS learn BOOK 12951 BCT NDLS 2201 2A AJAY 35 M VIJAYA 38 F.

6. You’ll get an SMS from IRCTC with the transaction ID, fare and availability. To pay, SMS PAY IMPS IRCTCUserID to 139.

7. ICICI Bank clients can e-book tickets with out IMPS. They can ship an SMS to 139 utilizing this format BOOK ICICI.

8. To pay together with your ICICI Bank account, SMS *PAY ICICI *.

9. Now you may get a affirmation message from IRCTC in case your ticket is booked. Make certain that this SMS is in your cellphone once you board the prepare. You do not want to print an e-ticket anymore and you’ll simply present this SMS and a photograph ID to the TTE to undertake the journey.

Have you tried to e-book tickets by way of SMS? How has your expertise been? Let us know by way of the feedback. For extra tutorials, head to our How To part.