IRCTC- Serving Passengers with Catering, Ticketing and Tourism

Traveling by train has been made very much convenient by the initiative of Indian Government by going online as far as Indian Railways are concerned. IRCTC is understood as Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation that takes care of catering, tourism and online ticketing. It has played a very important role in shaping of Indian tourism industry by being a building block of it. Train to Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Karnataka, Patna, Kolkata, Ahmeadabad, etc could be easily booked through its website. People are coming more in contact of ticketing facility of IRCTC rather than catering and tourism as it has tremendously changed the face of booking and reservation of train.

There are many popular travel portals that are used to reserve seats in train but even they have IRCTC as their interface for this. If you wish to reserve a seat in train to Delhi, you just have to do to website, fill a registration form (if you are not already registered) and then under “Plan My Travel” you can give out the specifics to see the options available to you for a particular destination from your place of boarding. Going by the availability, you can opt out the best suitable train for yourself and whosoever is accompanying you.

IRCTC came into picture to give Indian Railways a taste of professionalism and hence promote domestic travel and tourism. It came to transform the service end of railways to ease efforts put in by a traveler to get to a place by train. As far as catering is considered, it is taking care of on board meals on trains like Rajdhani / Shatabdi / Duronto and Mail / Express Trains. Many of them are either train to Delhi or from Delhi. Also, there are the Static Catering Units such as Refreshment Rooms, AVMs, Book Stalls, Milk Stalls, Ice Cream Stalls, Petha & Peda Stalls etc. across the Indian Railway Network that are looked after by IRCTC.
rnFor different locations there are many different trains now available to serve but the number of trains to Delhi is far greater if compared to any other place. The prime reason could be the importance this place holds for students and professionals. Many people from various parts of India are employed here. This has lead to transformation of the capital city as far as building infrastructure is regarded. If you also wish to be part of this place, take help of IRCTC!