Railway New Rules: Aadhaar card compulsory for Tatkal ticket booking now

News India Live, Digital Desk: If you book Tatkal tickets online and yet your IRCTC If the account is not linked to Aadhaar, then make it quick. Railways have made it clear that the accounts of users whose account Aadhaar will not be verified can be closed. According to a railway report, every day about 2.25 lakh passengers book Tatkal tickets. Statistics from May 24 to June 2 have shown that very few tickets (an average in AC) are booked in the first minute as soon as the booking window opens, but in the second minute the number suddenly increases (22,827). The reason for this is being considered as bots and fake accounts.

To prevent this, the Railways has now blocked more than 2.4 crore fake IDs with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and 20 lakh accounts are still under investigation. The railway has made it clear that the account which does not have Aadhaar verification will be gradually disabled.

Only Aadhaar verified users will benefit from this…

Railways say that users who are linked to account Aadhaar will be given priority in the first 10 minutes of booking Tatkal tickets. Even authorized IRCTC agents will not be able to book tickets in the first 10 minutes. The next step of the railway is that soon Aadhaar-based OTP verification will also be made mandatory and ticket booking from the counter may also require Aadhaar. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said that Indian Railways will soon start booking Tatkal tickets with e-Aadhaar so that needy and real passengers can get tickets.

All tickets were booked as soon as the window opened…

IRCTC investigation has revealed that 2.5 crore fake user IDs were being used to book tickets in the last five months, due to which the common passengers were not getting tickets. As soon as the ticket window opened, 2.9 lakh suspects were generated in the first five minutes, which included both general and immediate tickets. IRCTC has put 20 lakh and user ID in the re-verification process, so that the black marketing of tickets can be stopped.

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