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Railways alerts against touts running IRCTC job rackets

Railways on Monday alerted citizens against touts running IRCTC job rackets.

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Railways on Monday alerted citizens against touts running IRCTC job rackets. The Indian railways took to its Twitter account to warn against touts making a fool out of innocent people by providing them fake assurance of IRCTC jobs. IRCTC is Railways' e-ticketing arm. The full form of IRCTC is Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation. 

Railways issued a circular stating that some anti-social elements were making false promises of providing jobs in IRCTC, cautioning people to refrain from getting in their net.

According to railways, IRCTC has not initiated any recruitment drive recently or in the past. It also made it clear thatif any, employment opportunity would be available, the Railways and IRCTC would made it public through newspapers and it would also update it on their official website irctc.com.

The Indian Railways has also asked for help from citizens to recognize or to report about the touts involved in the IRCTC job racket. The Ministry of Railways urged people to file complaint in this regard with police and inform authorities of Indian Railways.

Meanwhile, IRCTC has recently launched a new method for booking rail tickets including Tatkal tickets. Taking advantage of the new service, IRCTC e-wallet users can now book rail e-tickets including Tatkal quota tickets through its mobile android app, IRCTC Rail Connect. 

IRCTC e-wallet is a mode of payment which enables users to deposit money in advance with IRCTC. Below we have explained the way to pay for e-tickets via IRCTC e-wallet. 

1. First the user needs to register them at IRCTC e-wallet facility through IRCTC website. According to IRCTC, a user can have a maximum of six banks in his or her preference list. 

2. Passengers can book tickets by selecting IRCTC's e-wallet service while making payments.

Earlier on April 5, the IRCTC recently introduced new rules of booking Tatkal tickets or tickets that are booked at the last minute by those who want to travel on an urgent basis.  

How to book e-ticket? 

Register by filling the required fields. Login by entering your user name and password.The "Plan my travel" page appears.If the From/To station selected by you are correct in the route of the train then :Select e-Ticket option.

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