Big steps taken by Indian Railways to curb illegal e-Ticketing: Here is all you need to know

New Delhi: In order to curb e-ticketing malpractices, numerous preventive and punitive measures have been taken by Indian Railways. 

Minister of Railways, Commerce & Industry and Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Piyush Goyal in a written reply to a query in Lok Sabha has cited the measures taken by Indian Railways to curb illegal e-Ticketing.

Here are the necessary initiatives taken on this regard, to make IRCTC reservation web site, foolproof:

1. Instructions have been issued to be certain that tickets aren’t booked on abbreviated names and full identify of the passenger and the surname wherever relevant are captured on the time of reserving reserved tickets.
    
2. Carrying of prescribed id proof has been made obligatory for one of many passengers whereas enterprise journey in reserved class.
    
3. Regular checks are performed in mass contact areas akin to Passenger Reservation System (PRS) centres, reserving places of work, platforms, trains and so on. to stop unauthorized ticketing actions together with using scripting software program. Such checks are additionally intensified throughout peak interval like festivals, holidays and so on.
    
4. In case of on-line reserving of tickets, checks have been utilized on minimal time required to enter the passenger particulars and CAPTCHA and no ticket could be booked earlier than 35 seconds. User IDs are checked on every day foundation and people IDs discovered utilizing malpractices like quick reserving of tickets are deactivated.
    
5. The approved brokers of IRCTC have been restricted from reserving tickets throughout first fifteen minutes of opening the Advance Reservation Period (ARP) reserving and Tatkal reserving.
    
6. General public are additionally educated by way of Public Address System and media, not to purchase tickets from unscrupulous parts and penalties of shopping for tickets from these sources.
    
7. Restrictions have been placed on creation of IRCTC person ID and reserving of tickets per person.
    
8. Dynamic CAPTCHA has been launched at registration, login and reserving web page.
    
9. Multilayer safety & common audits by Standardization Testing and Quality Certification (STQC).
    
10. A restrict of reserving 6 Railway tickets by a person person in a month has been set in case of reserving from Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) portal. This restrict has been revised to 12 Railway tickets in a month for these particular person customers who’ve linked their IRCTC person ID with their respective Aadhaar quantity and ensured that a minimum of one of many passengers within the passenger record is verifiable by way of Aadhaar quantity.
     
11. Regular drives are being performed by RPF towards individuals/companies discovered concerned in unauthorized carrying on of enterprise of procuring and supplying of railway tickets. The offenders are booked underneath part 143 of the Railways Act. Cases having wider ramifications and involving elements of different offences are being dealt in coordination with different regulation enforcement companies like Police & CBI.
     
12. Use of PRABAL question primarily based software for verification of IRCTC IDs to detect the instances of illegal E-ticketing with comply with up motion.

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