Now, SMS alert after confirmation of waitlisted railway tickets

Now, SMS alert after confirmation of waitlisted railway tickets

Now, SMS alert after confirmation of waitlisted railway tickets

Soon, you will no longer have to dial the 139 or visit the railway website to check the status of your waitlisted ticket. Railways will now send ticket booking status messages to passengers on their mobile phones, if their tickets get confirmed before journey.

"Once the SMS-based service is operational, passengers will get the updated status of their wait-listed tickets automatically. Only those passengers will get the message whose tickets get confirmed,” a Railway Ministry official is quoted as saying.

Software for the SMS-based service is being developed by CRIS, the technological arm of Railways.

The new service is certainly going to benefit a number of passengers and also help reduce load on the government railway website.

It's notable IRCTC has already launched a facility to book tickets using mobile phones. To make ticket booking process easier, IRCTC has launched mobile apps as well. Read: In Focus: IRCTC App for Windows Phone 8

IRCTC recently launched e-wallet scheme, wherein users have an account with the IRCTC and have a sum already deposited that can be used for future tickets bookings.