Now, you can soon check vacant seats, berth availability in train online
New Delhi, Jan 4: It's a good news for Indian Railways passengers. The commuters can now check vacant seats and berth availability online on trains in order to further ease ticket booking procedure.
According to a report by news agency PTI, Railways Minister Piyush Goyal has asked senior officials to make reservation chart public with the help of Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS).
When a passenger is booking a seat through airlines' website, it shows the seating layout or the seating diagram with the booked seats in a different colour so that he or she can see the number of seats that are still vacant and can be booked.
In
the
computerised
Passenger
Reservation
System
(PRS),
confirmed
berths
or
seats
are
allotted
on
the
first
come,
first
served
basis
till
the
availability
and
thereafter
Reservation
Against
Cancellation
(RAC)
or
Waiting
List
tickets
are
issued.
The
status
of
RAC
or
Waiting
List
tickets
gets
automatically
updated
against
the
cancellation
of
confirmed
berths
or
seats
and
also
against
release
of
unutilised
reservation
quotas.
This move will further improve ticket booking procedure and reduce the number of complaints of passengers regarding clarity in the availability of tickets.
Not only this, the food that you get on board a train is set to improve further in the coming days. The Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation has been working to improve its food quality.