Indian Railway launched New Mobile App for Online Ticket booking - Rail Connect App

Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corp Ltd (IRCTC), which manages the online ticketing of trains, has launched a new IRCTC Rail Connect mobile app for fast and easy rail ticket booking in August 2020. But now you can book an immediate online ticket through Rail Connect App.

Indian Railways has recently upgraded the IRCTC Rail Connect mobile app & added multiple features, which are used for online booking of railway tickets.

The upgraded e-ticketing application provides "top-in-class" features has been launched by the Indian Minister of Railways and Commerce and Industry and Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Piyush J Goyal.   

Now the Indian railway users are concentrating on the design of this new world-class app for booking online train tickets. Novel user personalization features associated with user logins are included for the first time with customization for a seamless travel experience, one-stop train selection for booking, and integrated booking for food and adjustment with tickets.

Payment Transition option

THE latest IRCTC Android Mobile app offers you to pay the transition through e-Wallets, Credit Card, Debit Card, and Net Banking. On Wallet, IRCTC supports Paytm, Mobikwik, Pay U Money, IRCTC Wallet, etc. So with the help of this new generation payment system, you can do easily payment transition. Also provided a lot of offers for booking Train Ticket online.

Latest Ultimate Features of IRCTC Rail Connect Android Mobile App

1. New Users, Sign-up and activate from App directly.
2. Google Android TalkBack attribute to help visually impaired to book train e-tickets.
3. Optimized Enrollment Flow with the simple two-page process.
4. High-security features of self-assigned PIN to login without entering username and password on each login.
5. Aadhaar Linking facility through a mobile app to avail up to 12 train tickets booking in a month.
6. Check PNR status Chances Probability before and after booking train tickets for waitlisted availability
7. Any PNR Enquiry facility to check the PNR reservation status.
8. Enhanced Dashboard with Integrated Menu Bar.
9. Ask without login for trains, routes, and seat availability.
10. Supports Ladies, Tatkal, Premium Tatkal, Divyangjan, and Lower Berth/Sr. Citizen in addition to General Quota train tickets.
11. Current Reservation train tickets booking facility.
12. Integrated with IRCTC e-wallet for quicker and tension-free transactions.
13. Boarding point change facility.
14. Vikalp scheme gives an option to avail confirmed berth/seat in the alternate train to the waitlisted passengers.
15. Online Reservation Chart & facility.
16. Recover your forgotten user Id through the Forgot User Id facility.
17. Syncing of IRCTC Rail Connect Mobile Apps tickets.
18. Now users can view, cancel, or file TDR of train e-tickets booked by the official website or IRCTC Rail Connect mobile apps and vice-versa.
19. Users can view the status of e-tickets booked through our authorized Online Travel Agents.
20. users can view and cancel old mobile app tickets also. 

The level of all these features will be more advanced compare to other applications, which offer an online ticket booking system. In the most app, the station search entry is still alphabetical, with availability status either not timely or outdated. In add-on, this advanced e-ticketing application features unified booking facilities for lodging and meals.

At present, IRCTC has more than 6 crores, active users, on this e-ticketing web and Mobile App, it is used to book above 8 lakh tickets on daily basis. About 83% of the total reserved railway tickets are booked by this online platform.

Rail Connect App win National award for e-governance!

IRCTC Rail Connect app already wins National award for e-governance! In a bid to make train ticket booking easier, IRCTC had revamped its mobile app and relaunched it as "IRCTC Rail Connect" in 2017. The first e-ticketing Android app, the “IRCTC Connect” was launched in 2014. According to IRCTC report, the new IRCTC Rail Connect app has been downloaded by more than 3 crore users and since January 2017.