India, March 25 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
Financial Year
No. of tickets booked online
No. of tickets booked through counter (in crore)
2025-26
48.25
6.15
(in crore)
(upto February, 26)
Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has provided the facility to book reserved tickets online saving passengers from the trouble of going to reservation counters to book the tickets thus saving travel time and transportation costs.
IRCTC incurs substantial expenditure on providing online ticketing facility and in order to defray the cost incurred in maintenance, upgradation and expansion of ticketing infrastructure, a very nominal convenience fee is levied by IRCTC.
The online ticket booking facility provi...