Nagapattinam, June 14 -- Indian Railways is set to significantly upgrade its passenger reservation system, increasing ticket booking capacity from 32,000 to 1.5 lakh tickets per minute as part of a major digital overhaul aimed at improving efficiency and reducing server failures during peak booking hours.

This comes after Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday announced that a new, improved website of IRCTC will be launched by July 15 of this year after some students complained to the Union Minister about the IRCTC website and the inconveniences they faced while booking tickets during an event in Rajasthan.

Speaking to ANI on Sunday at Nagore Railway Station in Nagapattinam district, MGFA Syed Jafar Ali, Member of the Zonal...