Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation [IRCTC] Complaints & Reviews

I have booked a e- ticket(PNR:[protected]) for 3 passengers from Mangalore to Bangalore and the date of journey is[protected] ,at the time of chart preparation 1 ticket confirmed and the other two passengers are under waitlist.Hence I have filed tdr for pnr no.[protected] on 18may 2013 as the ticket was partially confirmed and ALL THE PASSENGERS didn't travel .even after one month the claim is showing as under process.

On Tuesday - Morning around 7:40 AM, I was browsing www.irctc.co.in website with my registered user profile - login ID arathi4. While doing this I was looking for a confirmed ticket quickly and somehow the web-site got hung. When I tried to login again it displayed the message that my profile has been deactivated.
After few attempts <considering Irctc website to be faulty>, I called the helpdesk to inquire about the same and to my surprise they told that my profile has been deactivated because they found my activities suspicious and my activities were deemed as "tempering the website".

This is absolutely false. When I sent an email with the explanation, I received a response that was more humiliating that - "You are found suspicious with the tampering activities on IRCTC

website, hence your profile is deactivated. Please avoid these type of

activities otherwise deterrent action will be taken in this regard."

I claim that I am innocent and there is something wrong with the IRCTC website and not my fault. I demand the organization to restore my profile and send me an apology note. I am ready to face any inquiry that could prove me Guilty.

If required, I can provide my login credentials in the appropriate way to facilitate the findings.

It is shown that my account with user ID:'subodhnim' has been suspended on the web site of IRCTC.It is really arbitrary without any reason same has been suspended. though it is in terms and conditions even then there should be a reason so at least genuine passengers should not be suffered due to this attitude. what's the use of such facility which creates unexpected problems than solve it. Emails sent to them appeared fall in deaf ears. This is the Govt. who never listens.

Hello sir today I was booking ticket from hubli to bangalore rani chanamma express dated 14 june 2013 but amount deducted no ticket booked and no transaction details I am getting my bank message is ur Accountxxxxxxxx018263xx has been DEBITED for Rs.336.24/-ECOM-INDIAN RAILWAY CATERIN NEW DELHI -[protected]-(14:06:2013:13:1

Please refund my amount....

Hi,
I have made the payment of 2 tickets in Sealdah Rajdhani for[protected] but I didn't receive the confirmation yet of the pnr number. I got a message regarding my money getting deducted but no confirmation of ticket. Let me know the problem ....
nandini.[protected]@gmail.com

Regards
Nandini Majumdar

Please find below my mail to railways on 9th May 2013:-

With Reference to your PNR No: [protected] & [protected], *_the train met with an accident after the verification of tickets by the TTI due to which the train was re-routed to Bhubaneswar Station. As the train was re-routed & also was late for more than 3 hours, there was no confirmation about the departure time of the train from the railway authorities. Hence, the passengers did not travelled and got down at Bhubaneswar Railway Station. Request you to kindly analyse the case again and process for refund of applicable amount.

Reply by railways on 20th May 2013:-

We are extremely sorry for the inconvenience caused to you. Kindly note that your case has been regretted by Railways, if you have any proof *(like presence in office, medical certificate or PNR No. of other ticket in case of alternate travelling etc.)* of not travelling then*please* specify so that we can again forward your case to the concerned Railways to chase your refund.

My reply to railways on 21st May 2013:-

Dear Sir,
This is really a very shameful reply by the railways that an
accidental train passenger, whose life could have been in danger need
to hunt for a proof that he has not travelled. At that point in time
when there was so much of risk involved, how can a passenger be in a
mindset to arrange for proof of not travelling. In any case, if the
train has met with an accident and has been re-routed, anyways the
passenger would be given refund. How can the railway expect a proof,
which the passenger could not have arranged at that point of time.
This should have been the railways responsibility to check whether the
accidental train passengers have continued their journey or not.
Anyways, there is no such proof which can prove that the passenger has
not travelled, except the "cancellation of the return ticket PNR" from
Raipur-Bhubaneswar dated 05/04/2013 which was cancelled because the
onward journey itself did not happened on 03/04/2013. The PNR No. of
the return journey is [protected] & [protected]. If this information is
sufficient for refund, then it would be great for the already troubled
passengers, or else there would be nothing called as GOOD FAITH in this country, especially railways.

Reply by Railways on 8th June 2013:-
Dear customer,
We are extremely sorry for the inconvenience caused to you.
Kindly note that your case has been regretted by Railways, if you have any proof *(like presence in office, medical certificate or PNR No. of other ticket in case of alternate travelling etc.)* of not travelling then *please* specify so that we can again forward your case to the concerned Railways to chase your refund.

Please help.

I have booked a ticket to Thrissur (TCR) on[protected] thro' WWW.IRCTC.CO.IN, with wait listed. after chart preparation, i have not get confirmed. hence, i have submitted TDR online before train leaves the boarding station. even to-day i gone through with www.irctc.co.in link shows refund under process. my question is, when www.irctc.co.in booking responsibility, why they are not taking responsible for refund. I wrote to customer care for refund, they simply answered, please contact the regional commercial manager. i processed all transaction through only with www.irctc.co.in. whether the government would initiate any solution to online ticketing bonafide paasengers.

S No.. Transaction ID PNR No. Total Amount Bank Reason
1 [protected] [protected] Rs 256.24 hdfcvbvpg Cancelled
2 [protected] [protected] Rs 2827.47 hdfcvbvpg Cancelled
3 [protected] [protected] Rs 256.24 hdfcvbvpg Cancelled
4 [protected] [protected] Rs 2827.47 hdfcvbvpg Cancelled
ihave booked above tickets on 16 april and payment made by credid card (Andhra bank),and after i have cancilled all tickets,but not received above amount ,till 04/06/13

I traveled as per details below:
PNR Train Coach/seat Date
[protected] 12003 C-8/20 and 21 29/5/13
[protected] 12034 C-2/64 01/06/13
The Catering was by Sunshine Caterers Pvt. Ltd.
Complaints:
1. Snacks provided were substandard. Mango drink was of local packaging ( Manpasand Agro Foods, Jaunpur) without any Mfg/Expiry date.
2. As against usual sandwich provided in snacks, on train 12003 Rs. 5/- Namkeen packet was given. and in train number 12034 a Rs.2/- BUN was given.
3. SAMOSAS were the staple snack on both the trains without any manufacturer name/date of manufacturing/Expiry date and were soggy with stale potato stuffing.
4. Milk Powder (local brand without date of expiry - curdled during tea making)./ Tea bag of local brand Mohni tea , again without mfg./expiry. / No availability of Coffee sachet/ as against two tea bags, two milk powder sachets and two sugar sachets , only ONE each was given, making it impossible to have tea.
5. Insufficient crockery / plastic ups for tea/ Thermos for hot water for tea... making them ask back the same from the passengers mid meals, and serving without proper washing/cleaning to another passengers.
6. TTE on duty/ Guards were informed and rather than providing complaint book, they argued alongwith catering manager that nothing is going to happen.
7. I even called Sunshine Caterers Pvt. Ltd and sent SMS Complaint too on their numbers [protected]/[protected]/[protected] but they behaved rudely and did not reply to SMS.
Cal details can be checked from my mobile [protected] to their numbers for 1 June 2013.

Tribhuvan Mendiratta
308 Maa hathi Matha Apartment
133/162 O Block Near KESA Office Kidwainagar
Kanpur-208023
Phone [protected]

I m a regular user of irctc having more than one account but i use only one account as my regular usage.I haven't got mails that all(with user id:MUTHAKANI and rohith3780) my accounts are deactivated which are utmost important to me. I have to cancel ticket for 5th june 2013 from this(rohith3780) account. I am using this account only for personal purposes and not for commercial use.

So, please consider this mail and activate the account mentioned above as soon as possible.

On[protected] I was ordered my breakfast poori masala in IRCTC Canteen located in 1st floor,Athulya Infopark,Kakkanad,Cochin and i had paid 100/- rupees instead of 30/-rupees.The employee in cash counter gave a token(for breakfast food) and a 10/- rupees balance instead of 60/- rupees.After my breakfast i was asked for remaining balance amount and then they replied me please come after 11'o clock.I met them at 12.00PM,I didn't get any cash balance and they were treated me as a liar.I lost my 60 rupees.Please check this issue and refund rupees 60/- as soon as possible.

ON 25TH,MAY/ IN TRAIN JAN SHATABDI,Train Number : 12078,pnr no.[protected] , on my ticket i had no.D5 /45,46,47(WS).BUT IT WAS not THE CORRECT NUMBER FOR WINDOW SEAT which is 48 on the number plate above the seats. the person who booked at railway station came and argued and this MR. PANEESH KUMAR. TTE also collude with them telling IRCTDC is a third party and their seat number is invalid.AND WE DID NOT GET EVEN ONE WINDOW SEAT. NUISANCE altercation ensued and finally i alongwith my children boy and daughter give away our window seat NO:47( as mentioned in our ticket) due to improper booking method of IRCTC. in the presence of whole compartment, what this irctc for booking wrong seat numbers and railway tte is saying you are not at all railways.he need not obey you.
but tte is permittting lot o[censored]nreserved people to crowd inside reserved compartments further suffocating travellling people.
for suitable action on your method of train seat numbering and for action against TTE in the above train please.

anandan

I HAVE BOOKED TRAIN TICKETS FROM BANGALORE TO KOPARGAON ON 29TH APRIL2013 THROUGH MY ICICI DEBIT CARD,DUE TO SOME PROBLEM WITH IRCTC TICKET WAS NOT BOOKED BUT PAYMENT WAS MADE.TOTALLY 5 TIMES SAME THING HAS HAPPENED,IRCTC REFUND STATUS IS SHOWING AS AMOUNT REFUNDED BUT IT IS NOT CREDITED TO MY ICICI BANK ACCOUNT,IT IS ALMOST 1 MONTH, I HAVE TRANSACTION DETAILS KINDLY DO NEEDFULL.

hi ,

raising a complaint regarding the poor reliability of IRCTC webiste , The site takes a very long time to process a request , Even after processing the request the transaction fails in most of the cases after payment getaway step.

It is really frustraing because in first case the tciket is not booked and money is also debited from the account,

refund happens after 3 days but after cutting the services charges .. we are actually paying for services that failed and it is definitely not our fault ...

I had booked eticket on[protected] being Transaction ID No.[protected] and PNR No.[protected] for which total fare of Rs.1080/- were paid through debit card of Bank of Baroda, Mulund (West) Branch, Mumbai.

I cancelled the said eticket on[protected] which shows that said eticket has been cancelled and an amount of Rs.990/- shall be refunded to said account within short time, but till date no refund has been made without any reason...

Dear all who is reading...

First of all ,I want to ask what is mean by tatkal ticket ???
In my view it is said that urgently ticket required for travel so it mean that people can get travel in urgently whenever required.......

But No, i think government have open Tatkal in the view of making money for other people.

From So many Day i try to have ticket but no success...in way of Internet online or in counter line ..

As people who is standing in line from night to morning so that he/she may be get ticket but result there is already only 10-15 ticket left for general public other ticket already sold to Agent to higher payable person,

and on Online i[censored] try it, response that page is unavailable or error ....
in that situation everyone think that page is in traffic due to heavy people try to connect ,,

But no, in real case all the agent throughout the country is already having the ticket before we should get it.

Think lightly, if government really want to give the service to public then why the government is not looking for the same,


Thanks,
General Public.

Dear sir,
I want to know the information about my TDR which transaction id is [protected] and pnr number is [protected], currently it is showing pending status, i filled it 21 april and expecting that the TDR should be resolved now, so kindly check it why it is taking so much time ,the reason of filling TDR is that one of my ticket is upgraded from ac 3 tier to 2 tier and other will be cancel due to waiting status.

Regards
Ahmad sayeed
IRCTC ID-sayeed15

I have forget my password and unfortunately my registered id is no longer available . So they should map it to new id which they are not doing , They are giving things that not really possible . What is the use of the e-ticketing system if there are so much complexity. The delhi consumer care number is not available ( service to this number is withdrwan ) what needs to be done . How can i send mail from registered id to cancel my tickets .Already mentioned my id is already closed .Any help if i can reset and get a new password to my new email id or in person . Please help in this regard. Urgent.

HI

I have to book a Tatkal ticket from IRCTC, As per new rules it starts after 10 Am ,
I was so ready on start line, IRCTC site opened and logged in already

And here its 10AM exact---> CLICKED TO FIND TRAIN ----> BOOOM ---> ERROR MSG POP UP "HTTP 503 Error ".

Tried again Logging , Reload, everything possible but same response HTTP 503 ERROR.

In general terms 503 error means occurs due to "overloading or services temporary unavailable due to server side" WTF

I Just screwed up what the hell man , if site was not available then where all these tatkal tickets gone for all trains.
This seems like some fraud behind the seen again for tatkal tickets.
one should look into this, I dont know whom i should complain and how much this information could be helpful.
So here i m posting for just for knowledge , No expectation for better

Dear Sir,

On 13/05/2013 i made online ticket booking from IRCTC.co.in website.Payment of Rs.491.00 through my boi debit card. My transaction was failed with error "Reasons: sorry!We are unable to process your transaction.Please conatct us at [protected]@billdesk.com for any queries" and no ticket has been booked.. kindly advice for further action..
with regards
Dr. Ankit Shah
[protected]