Good News For Passengers: Indian Railways Doubles Ticket Booking Limit On IRCTC App And Website, Know Details

Indian Railways: At present, the IRCTC website/app allows passengers to book a maximum of 6 tickets online in a month through a single user ID.

Passengers board on a train (Source: File photo/AFP)

New Delhi: In order to enhance the convenience of passengers, Indian Railways has decided to increase the limit for booking of a maximum of 6 tickets in a month to 12 tickets from a single user ID. This step has been taken for those whose accounts are not linked with Aadhar cards. At the same time, for a user ID whose account is linked with Aadhaar, the limit for booking a maximum of 12 tickets in a month has now been increased to 24 tickets.

According to a June 6 release of the Ministry of Railways, on Monday, it increased the limit of booking a maximum of 6 tickets in a month to 12 tickets from a user ID not linked with Aadhaar on its website/app. 

“To facilitate passengers, Indian Railways has decided to increase the limit of booking maximum 6 tickets in a month to 12 tickets by a user ID which is not Aadhaar linked and the limit of booking maximum 12 tickets in a month to 24 tickets by a user ID which is Aadhaar linked and that one of the passengers in the ticket to be booked is verifiable through Aadhaar,” the ministry said in a statement.

At present, the IRCTC website/app allows passengers to book a maximum of 6 tickets online in a month through a single user ID. At the same time, those whose user ID is linked with Aadhaar can book a maximum of 12 tickets in a month on the IRCTC website/app. Out of this, the ticket of a passenger can be verified with Aadhaar.

Earlier, due to the low ticket booking limit of IRCTC, many passengers had to face problems, who used to travel frequently.