Title - IRCTC Launches Windows 8 App

IRCTC Launches Windows 8 App
App for Windows Smartphone,Tablet and PC


Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has launched an Official Mobile App for Windows 8. The App developed along with Microsoft, will provide users another channel to book tickets beyond the portal, including for Windows Smartphone (Mobile Phone), Windows 8 tablet or PC.  IRCTC expects the number e-ticket bookings to increase with the introduction of this app.  IRCTC’s new App provides booking facility of Railway tickets online and offers other services like checking reservation status, train schedules, train routes, availability of tickets, cancellation, booking history, recent history, favourites, add passengers as contacts and roaming the transactions between multiple devices.
So now you can plan your travel, book train tickets and do much more on-the-go, using your Windows Mobile, Smartphone Phone, Windows 8 tablet or PC.  IRCTC has embarked on an application (app) journey, with the launch of the official IRCTC app.  The app has been made available exclusively for Windows devices. It will be available throughout the day excepting 0800-1200 hrs and 2330-0030 hrs.

To use the app, you must first generate a TPIN by logging onto www.irctc.co.in. The TPIN will be generated for your registered phone number and the bookings should be made through the registered phone number.  The app lights up inbuilt features of your Windows 8 and Windows Phone devices to bring you a delightful experience. Destination names show up quickly, planning your journey, making train choices and booking tickets is more seamless and immersive.

The rich and immersive app perform all the tasks already available on the IRCTC web site. What’s more? You also get some new and exciting features including visual maps of train routes, Windows Phone live tiles lighting up as train tickets and access to saved traveler profiles from multiple devices among many others.  Features:-

Plan my travel
Check PNR Status
Cancellation
Booking History
Frequent Passenger Info
Quick Booking
Preferences
Favourites
Recent History
Live Notifications
Announcing the availability of the app, Mr. Rakesh Tandon, CMD, IRCTC said, “We feel the app is ideal for the modern consumer who is always on the move. Windows is the most trusted and widely used platform and offers the requisite security required while handling vast amounts of personal and financial user data.”
You can download the app at –: http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/8677711b-15a9-46af-8dfa-644f37460ae0 and http://www.windowsphone.com/en-in/store/app/irctc/df6203c2-1f03-4854-b741-f3599c9f6b92 (links to Windows Store and Windows Phone Store)

IRCTC at an average is booking around 4 lakh tickets a day. But people have always faced connectivity issues and payment problems on the website.

Earlier this year during the Railway Budget the then Minister of Railways, Pawan Kumar Bansal, had said that, by the end of this year, India’s railway ticketing website will undergo a major overhaul to support booking of 3 times more number of tickets per minute and 6 times more number of simultaneous users.

In June this year, a railway ticket booking system via sms, for people without internet was also introduced, which was earlier released on a pilot basis.

Recently IRCTC’s online shopping site powered by Yebhi went live at shop.irctc.co.in. The service retails in clothing, accessories, home decor and electronics.