IRCTC down: The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Company (IRCTC) e-ticketing platform skilled a big outage because of upkeep. The interruption prevented folks from reserving or managing tickets, inflicting widespread outrage. Many expressed their frustrations on social media over the platform being down throughout peak tatkal time.
What did social media say?
Angrily, an individual wrote, “How can IRCTC web site go down throughout tatkal timings??? Why are we even bothering about constructing a bullet practice after we cannot even construct a f**king web site??” One other added, “India reached the moon, however the Indian Railways ticket reserving app cannot deal with Tatkal reserving with out crashing. It is 2024, and a secure server should not be rocket science!”
A 3rd expressed, “India is the most important IT hub on the planet, but it can’t repair an internet site. You possibly can acquire taxes however fail to offer correct companies in return. What a disgrace!” A fourth commented, “IRCTC portal is down and displaying downtime message throughout peak tatkal reserving hours.”
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“Please attempt later”
A number of social media customers shared screenshots of the message they obtained whereas attempting to entry IRCTC. “Resulting from upkeep exercise, e-ticketing service won’t be out there. Please attempt later,” it learn. The platform additional offered a number of numbers customers might attain to cancel their tickets in the course of the downtime.
“It urges prospects to “name buyer care no. 14646,08044647999 & 08035734999 or mail at etickets@irctc.co.in” for decision,” the message learn.
What did Downdetector present?
In keeping with Downdetector, a platform that tracks and supplies real-time standing updates on outages and repair disruptions for web sites, apps, and on-line companies, recorded almost 2,000 experiences of the location being down as of 11:48 am.
The outage was skilled all throughout India together with New Delhi, Kolkata, Surat, Mumbai, Lucknow, Jaipur, Chennai, and Bengaluru.
