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Why booking tatkal ticket is nightmare?
The IRCTC official website has improved by leaps and bounds. Booking a railway ticket is insanely easy. On the contrary, booking a tatkal train ticket is still a nightmare.
As trains are the easiest, the most convenient, and the most economical mode of transportation, majority of Indians depend on trains. According to comScore and ASSOCHAM India report, IRCTC ranks first among the leading travel websites in India. One out of five users visit IRCTC on a daily basis and almost 30 million unique visitors monthly. The site gets heavily crowded between 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., as this is the time IRCTC allows tatkal booking. The average number of tatkal tickets sold every day is a whopping 2.66 lakhs!
If you’ve ever booked a tatkal ticket, you would know how hard it is. It seems like a fight against time. Every second counts. The difficulty of last minute travel plan is on one side and losing your tatkal ticket to someone who’s been faster than you by a fraction of second is another. Majority of the time is lost during filling in the details of the travel. If you don’t have a fast internet connection and your typing speed is not up to the mark, you will lose it. But then again, you are trying to book along with more than 2 lakh people. Fast internet connection and fast typing can only go to a certain extent. You need assistance beyond that. Tatkal ticket extension, for instance.
There are many extensions and apps that help you book tatkal train ticket without any hassles. But if there is one platform that stands out for all the right reasons, it’s tatkalforsure from Buyhatke.
Using tatkalforsure (extension available for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, app available for Android and iOS devices), you can book tatkal ticket within moments. All you have to do is use the IRCTC autofill option on the extension/app and enter your details (journey details, bank details, etc.). Even the Captcha is capitalized and the OTP is automatically submitted while going through payment. The next time you want to book a tatkal ticket, the auto-booking feature autofills your details for you and saves you those precious seconds. It hardly takes 30 seconds to complete the tatkal ticket booking process.
There is no other way to book a tatkal ticket except to go through the procedure mandated by IRCTC. All you can do is be a bit faster. Tatkalsorsure does just this and does it well.
Booking a tatkal ticket is a pain, sure. You can never be sure of getting a ticket booked. But tatkalforsure simplifies the process for you in a very efficient way.