Online Train Ticket Booking Rules: If you want to travel by train, then booking a ticket is a process. If the ticket booking is not done on time, then you cannot get a seat. Now, new rules are going to be made for booking online railway tickets. Meaning Indian Railways is going to make a big change in the rules.
From October 1, 2025, after the online ticket booking opens for any train, during the first 15 minutes, only Aadhaar-authenticated users will be allowed to book general reservation through the IRCTC website or app. Along with this, there will be no change in the time of booking of general reserved tickets.
The most important thing is that there will be no change in the time restriction of 10 minutes after the reservation opens. Authorised ticket agents of Indian Railways are not going to be allowed to book reserved tickets on the first day. Actually, booking for general reservations starts from 12.20 midnight every day. It continues till 11.45 pm. If we talk about booking travel, it opens 60 days before the date.
The new rule will be special.
It will be necessary to understand it as an example. Suppose you have to book a ticket for 15 November in Shivganga Express going from New Delhi to Varanasi. For this, the online ticket booking window will open on 16 September at 12.20 midnight. No,w from 12.20 to 12.35, only those people will be able to book tickets in this train whose IRCTC account is iAadhaar-verifieded. If this is not done, then after the window opens, you will not be able to book tickets from 12.20 to 12.35.
There is a rush for tickets during festivals and weddings
Generally, you must have seen that there is a rush for tickets during festivals and weddings. During big festivals like Diwali, Chhath Puja and Holi and weddings, as soon as the booking window opens 2 months in advance, passengers rush to book tickets. This rush breaks for general tickets as well as for Tatkal ticket booking.
For your information, let us tell you that Indian Railways had made Aadhaar verification mandatory for online Tatkal ticket booking in July this year. You can also get this work done.