Railway passengers pay full fare in advance. They should be given the choice to choose seats in online booking. It is not uncommon to find seats of one family scattered in the train. If someone knows in advance that seats at one place are not available, he may modify the plan instead of putting other passengers to inconvenience while requesting seat change. Counter booking can be difficult to offer choice but online can be started. This will also encourage online booking over offline

"Tatkal System" It is very good system for passengers,But they r not getting the benefits of it properly, they have to go through agents and tickets becomes more expensive. Why we not authorize Tatkal reservation through only Online gateway(no window ticket) it will help alot, because to make online ticket it takes atleast 5 min to complete a reservation so tickets will be on Air for longer time. It helps to cut the agents extra burden and normal people can take the benefits properly. Thanks

In Indian Railway Most of the TT are corrupt. Most of the time Waiting tickets of vairous passengers get cofnirmed by paying 200-300 Rs. but never RAC ticket get confirmed in the train because RAC ticket holder does not give bribe. please stop corruption in train.

Please don't extend until 4 months..This makes lot of cancellation and we cant find the actual passenger traveling

There are 1000 different quotas and they are missused by the staff for getting WL tickets confirmed for their friends, relatives , etc. My father supplies in railways so I know how a WL ticket can get confirmed.

Last a week before I logged in at 8 AM and by 8.00.07 ( 7 sec ) I got wait list. I am doubting something fishy is going on. Many others might have also faced the same thing.

Four months advance booking is ridiculous. Two months was acceptable.

Continuing from b4-Furthermore, a QR code/ bar code scanner is cheap, and unlike a regular camera, the system only understands bar codes(QR codes are slightly different, but it's easy to introduce security measures), as a result privacy is also ensured. It is also easy to implement, and would go hand in hand with modern bio-toilets. Also the use of automation achieves immediate feedback(till the upper level) and allow for heuristics (understanding more from the data and improving accordingly)

Introduce a QR code/Bar code on both hard/soft copy tickets. This ticket then could be checked electronically by the ticket checker. As an example, it could be used as access control to toilets, etc. to make sure you are a genuine passenger. The toilets could in turn have an electronic survey which asks the passenger if the toilet is clean or dirty. (2 buttons, 2 lights ). These responses can be accumulated anonymously to compute automatically when toilets need to be cleaned.

IRCTC ticket booking software should immediately be revised to remove all Captcha except the initial log in. These Captchas (total 3 for card booking) is a barrier between genuine passenger and ticket purchase as it take a lot of time allowing touts to buy from counters. Railway board should take immediate action.