IRCTC Website and App Down: The IRCTC Website and App Down, and thousands of passengers worried
Due to the IRCTC app and website being down during winter vacation, passengers are facing a lot of trouble in booking Tatkal tickets, so let us know what you can do in such a situation.
Indian Railways’ online ticket booking portal IRCTC and its app went down due to technical problems. People had to face this during the immediate peak time. Due to technical glitches during peak booking hours, there was more difficulty in booking Tatkal tickets.
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IRCTC Website and App Down: What is the Matter?
According to the report of outage tracking platform Down Detector, around 2500 users reported outage cases at 10.25 am. At this time, complaints of outage on the platform were at their peak. Although the problems were resolved after some time, complaints of outages from many cities in India went viral on the internet.
According to the outage map of DownDetector, the website of IRCTC i.e. Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation was down in many cities of India in the morning. These included names like New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Surat, Mumbai, Madurai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Jaipur, Lucknow and Kolkata.
IRCTC Website and App Down: Reaction of Passengers On X
Although no statement has been issued by IRCTC regarding this yet, the users had to face a lot of trouble. Due to problems on the IRTC website, users turned to social media. People posted a lot about this problem on social media platform X and showed a lot of anger and criticism against IRCTC.
User’s reaction: One user wrote, ‘IRCTC website is down, there is a lot of difficulty in booking tickets, my payment is also stuck. Please look into this and resolve it as soon as possible. Another user wrote, ‘The IRCTC website has gone down again in a short time, this is very disappointing.’
IRCTC Down Hua, Website Aur Mobile App Par Railway Ticket Book, Cancel Karne Wale Log Hue Pareshan
— Gallinews.com (@gallinews) December 26, 2024
Aaj Thursday Ki Subha Indian Railway Ke Online Ticketing Platform Indian Railway Catering And Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) Ka Server Down Ho Gaya Tha Jiss Se Logon Ko Website Aur… pic.twitter.com/Bic9JAOkIp
What to do if the IRCTC Website and App Down?
When the IRCTC website is down, a downtime message is often visible to the user, in which it is written that due to maintenance, e-ticketing service is not available, try after some time.
In such a situation, users can call the customer care numbers 14646, 08044647999, and 08035734999, or can also express their problems through email, for which they can send a message to etickets@irctc.co.in.
Today IRCTC Share Fall
The direct impact of the outage was also seen on the shares of IRCTC and on Thursday, December 26, a fall of about 0.74% was seen and closed at the level of Rs 783. The company’s stock has fallen 3.92% in one month, 20.95% in 6 months, and 9.98% in one year. Only this year i.e. from January 1 till now, IRCTC has given a negative return of 12.20%.
Website Outages are the Second time in December
This is the second time in December that the IRCTC website has been down, affecting ticket bookings of thousands of passengers. Earlier on December 9 also it was down. IRCTC had cited maintenance as the reason for this. IRCTC had said that from 4 pm on December 9 to 4 pm on December 10, new registration, change in login password, and updating of profile password will not be possible
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